Coexistence Quotes

“Do not let your assumptions about a culture block your ability to perceive the individual, or you will fail.”
― Brandon Sanderson, Words of Radiance

“So little is actually worthy of belief or disbelief. Better to strive to coexist than seek to disapprove . . .”
― David Mitchell, The Thousand Autumns of Jacob de Zoet

“Diversity is an aspect of human existence that cannot be eradicated by terrorism or war or self-consuming hatred. It can only be conquered by recognizing and claiming the wealth of values it represents for all.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“In Astrology, the moon, among its other meanings, has that of "the common people," who submit (they know not why) to any independent will that can express itself with sufficient energy. The people who guillotined the mild Louis XVI died gladly for Napoleon. The impossibility of an actual democracy is due to this fact of mob-psychology. As soon as you group men, they lose their personalities. A parliament of the wisest and strongest men in the nation is liable to behave like a set of schoolboys, tearing up their desks and throwing their inkpots at each other. The only possibility of co-operation lies in discipline and autocracy, which men have sometimes established in the name of equal rights.”
― Aleister Crowley, Moonchild

“Beneath the armor of skin/and/bone/and/mind
most of our colors are amazingly the same.”
― Aberjhani, Elemental: The Power of Illuminated Love

“In the days when hyenas of hate suckle the babes of men, and jackals of hypocrisy pimp their mothers’ broken hearts, may children not look to demons of ignorance for hope.”
― Aberjhani, The River of Winged Dreams

“God has given us many faiths but only one world in which to co-exist. May your work help all of us to cherish our commonalities and feel enlarged by our differences.”
― Jonathan Sacks

“When you learn a language, you don't just learn to speak and write a new language. You also learn to be open-minded, liberal, tolerant, kind and considerate towards all mankind.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“This is God's universe and he is the master gardener of all. If we were to eliminate all colors in his garden,then what would be a rainbow with only one color? Or a garden with only one kind of flower? Why would the Creator create a vast assortment of plants, ethnicities, and animals, if only one beast or seed is to dominate all of existence?”
― Suzy Kassem, Rise Up and Salute the Sun: The Writings of Suzy Kassem

“Much of the vitality in a friendship lies in the honoring of differences, not simply in the enjoyment of similarities".”
― James Fredericks

“Millions cheer the warrior
spilling blood across the ring
while the one who stands for peace
is ridiculed and shamed.
Must hearts forever suffer
from ignorance and greed?
Can bombs heal our souls
or set our spirits free?”
― Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

“It's the failure to see this planet as a single entity that causes so much pain so many times. You cannot attack one part of the world without it affecting the whole earth, the whole body. Attacking other cultures, other nations, is a self-destructive act. It always comes back on you in some way.”
― Gorillaz, Gorillaz: Rise of the Ogre

“Any person who, with all the sincerity of heart, is in search for God, on land or in the sea, is worthy of respect.”
― Riaz Ahmed Gohar Shahi, The Religion of God

“Religion and ethics were not always - or even frequently - mutually compatible. The demands of religious absolutism or fundamentalism or rampaging relativism often deflected the worst aspects of contemporary culture or prejudices rather than a system which both man and God could live under with a sense of real justice.”
― Dan Simmons, The Fall of Hyperion

“No human being should be maltreated under any circumstances. We are all wonderful creation of God. May we affectionately love one another.”
― Lailah Gifty Akita, Pearls of Wisdom: Great mind

“Each new year is another chance to get love right.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“The truth is sealed.
Life goes on.
Till one day, history changed...
Like thief in the night,
aliens invade human.
Chaos happens prior to the new order of coexistence.
The truth is sealed.
Life goes on.
Till one day, history changed.”
― Toba Beta, My Ancestor Was an Ancient Astronaut

“Friends we may not be, enemies we shall not become,
Bound by understanding, conflicts we will overcome.”
― Mouloud Benzadi

“Opposites reconcile by affirming their separate equally-valid expressions of a single essence. Recognizing this [becomes] one way to claim peace in an otherwise tumultuous world.”
― Aberjhani, Dreams of the Immortal City Savannah

“Respect for the environment, and respect for what was naturally occurring in nature: that was the bedrock of all original peoples. Harmony, coexistence, not conquest and conquer.”
― L.A. Banks, Bad Blood

“English is my second language,
My first language is love.
Neuroscience is my second sense,
My first sense is love.
Theology is my second faith,
My first faith is interfaith.
Philosophy is my second nature,
My first nature is to assimilate.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“First Language (The Sonnet)

English is my second language,
My first language is love.
Neuroscience is my second sense,
My first sense is love.

Theology is my second faith,
My first faith is interfaith.
Philosophy is my second nature,
My first nature is to assimilate.

Analog is my second passion,
My first passion is dialogue.
Law is my second task, my first,
Is taking beings out of the bog.

All labels are second labels,
Our native label is human.
All tradition is second tradition,
Earth's native tradition is compassion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“English is my second language,
My first language is love.
Neuroscience is my second sense,
My first sense is love.
Theology is my second faith,
My first faith is interfaith.
Philosophy is my second nature,
My first nature is to assimilate.
All labels are second labels,
Our native label is human.
All tradition is second tradition,
Earth's native tradition is compassion.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Don't sync your heartbeats
to the drumbeats of war.
Strum the chords of coexistence
on the frets of fervor.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Strum on heartstrings the song of synergy,
Be the headstrong harbinger of harmony.
Coexistence is existence when human is whole,
Wake up to duty, geopolitics will be history.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“Life is love, love is life -
all other existence is null and void.
World is love, love is the world -
all other paradigm is poison voyage.”
― Abhijit Naskar, Visvavictor: Kanima Akiyor Kainat

“As we forge forward in the pursuit of progress, let us not forget the shared rights of all beings to inhabit this Earth, tread the paths of compassion and empathy, seeking ways to coexist harmoniously, embracing the notion that every creature, from the mightiest to the humblest, deserves their place under the sun.”
― Rove Monteux, Roadkill Horrors

“I've found that most people don't have a mental filing drawer labeled Times I Was Wrong. Its mislabeled Times I Was Lonely or Times So-And-So Was Angry.”
― Kathryn Schulz , [Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error] [By: Schulz, Kathryn] [January, 2011]

“The journey may be complex, but the destination – a world where individuals of all faiths coexist in peace – is surely worth the trials encountered along the way.”
― James Scott, Unity in Diversity: An Interfaith Guide to Peacebuilding in Conflict Zones

“Our decision: From now on, we would share the world with humans.”
― Lee Bacon, The Last Human: A Novel