Saturday, February 25, 2012

Every major religion in the world has a variation of the Golden Rule:


Christianity All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye so to them; for this is the law and the prophets. Matthew 7:1
Confucianism Do not do to others what you would not like yourself. Then there will be no resentment against you, either in the family or in the state. Analects 12:2
Buddhism Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.Udana-Varga 5,1
Hinduism This is the sum of duty; do naught onto others what you would not have them do unto you. Mahabharata 5,1517
Islam No one of you is a believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself. Sunnah
Judaism What is hateful to you, do not do to your fellowman. This is the entire Law; all the rest is commentary Talmud, Shabbat 3id
Taoism Regard your neighbor’s gain as your gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss. Tai Shang Kan Yin P’ien
Zoroastrianism That nature alone is good which refrains from doing another whatsoever is not good for itself Dadisten-I-dinik, 94,5


WHAT HAVE A FEW OF OUR TEACHERS TOLD US?

“You must be the change you want to see in the world.”~ Gandhi

“If we would live the life of real success, real joy, real Christlikeness, we must keep the current turned to flow from within outward instead of in the opposite direction. God says, “If you offer your food to the hungry and satisfy the needs of the afflicted, then your light shall rise in the darkness and your gloom be like noonday. The Lord will guide you continually and satisfy your needs in parched places, and make your bones strong; and you shall be like a watered garden, like a spring of water, whose waters never fail” (Is. 58:10-11). H. Emilie Cady

“…. service is one of the steps that lead up to the place where all the fullness of God awaits men…..Unless you use for the service of others what God has already given to you, you will find it a long, weary road to spiritual understanding.” H. Emilie Cady

“…man should commit the justice that he wishes to see brought into human affairs.” Charles Fillmore

“Here is the great lesson for us. We should give ourselves first. Walt Whitman said: “… When I give, I give myself.” Here is a great lesson for all of us, that we must put the spirit of giving into our gift. If we don’t do that, it falls short of the real thing.” Charles Fillmore, 1929

“As you help others spiritually and in every way you not only fulfill the law of giving and receiving, you develop your own resources and capabilities in fuller measure.” Myrtle Fillmore

“It is (Creative Energy’s) nature to spring into being through our thought and action.” Ernest Holmes

“It is quite a burden lifted when we realize that we do not have to move the world – it is going to move anyway. This realization does not lessen our duty or our social obligation. It clarifies it. It enables us to do joyously, and free from morbidity, that which we should do in the social state.” Ernest Holmes

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