Coexistence Quotes

“Our greatest power as nations and individuals is not the ability
to employ assault weapons, suicide bombers, and drones
to destroy each other. The greater more creative powers
with which we may arm ourselves are grace and compassion
sufficient enough to love and save each other.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“We ache with the yearning
that turns half into whole
and offer no excuses
for the beauty of our souls.”
― Aberjhani, Songs from the Black Skylark zPed Music Player

“Poetry empowers the simplest of lives to confront the most extreme sorrows with courage, and motivates the mightiest of offices to humbly heed lessons in compassion.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“At the different stages of recognition, reflection, and redress, practicing compassion provides potentially world-saving opportunities which otherwise likely would not exist.”
― Aberjhani, Illuminated Corners: Collected Essays and Articles Volume I.

“We can gain a lot more striving for harmonious coexistence than we can by giving in to hate-filled rage and fear-driven ignorance.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“wherever they live, travel, hike, swim, fish, dive, kayak, or trek, they risk being confronted by something capable of doing them in with tooth, fang, claw, jaw, or stinger, and yet there is no public clamor to eradicate any animal because of the peril it poses to the human population. australians have learned to coexist in relative peace with nearly everything, and when occasionally a human life is lost to an animal, the public usually reacts philosophically.”
― Peter Benchley, Shark Trouble

“مطلقا باور دارم که شاه‌راه حقیقت جز از کربلا و شاه‌راه محبت جز از جلجتا نمی‌گذرد. و شادی صحیح از وجود، در به خود بالیدن از ستایش دیگران نیست، بلکه دقیق‌ترین معیار آن، آمادگی مداوم برای مرگ در هر آن برای شاد بودن دیگران از وجود است.”
― Seyed Musa Sadr - سید موسی صدر, يوميات ووثائق 1975/2

“In its essence, Elemental, the Power of Illuminated Love, maintains we are all on a quest to experience qualities of compassion and acceptance capable of helping to sustain both the individual and the larger society. Because such a journey tends to take place even more within than without, the visual imagery, words, and music of ILLUMINATED LOVE incorporates both levels of that reality.”
― Aberjhani, Splendid Literarium: A Treasury of Stories, Aphorisms, Poems, and Essays

“This world is not what you believed it was – you, humans, are not the ultimate beings who govern over the universe. The world is not only one universe, to begin with. There are seven universes, all filled with hundreds and thousands of galaxies, countless stars, more planets and asteroids… A lot of them, unlike how you humans believed, are populated. There are numerous species both similar and different from you, all with their own views, values, beliefs, joys, and sorrows. So dare not think what you believe in is the ultimate truth of this world, or what you value matters the most. We are different and you should get over with it – there will be people whom you can never agree with. That does not mean, however, that you cannot accept them for who they are, cannot live side by side with them, share their pain and joy, earn their trust and benevolence, and ultimately, lean on their shoulders for support and believe they shall be there whenever you are in need. Remember, my dearest friend – the only truth we all can mutually agree on, and the only force which can unite all of us is the power of the heart, for we, all living beings, have that one thing in common: the power to feel, to care, and to love. As for other things – mindset, views, principles, beliefs, opinions – they are never absolute, so what you think is immoral, might not look so in another person’s eyes. I am sorry, but this is how this world runs.”
― Tamuna Tsertsvadze, Galaxy Pirates

“We need not think alike to love alike.”
― Frances David

“The essence of coexistence is quite simple: live and respect how others live.”
― Eraldo Banovac

“Morality established from Science is the key to understanding Coexistence.
Science based on Morality is the reason we have prejudice for things we don't understand.”
― Anonymous

“Healing a hurting humanity starts with a sacred pause, to listen, to learn, to understand, to accept, to forgive, to respect. That sacred pause transcends the fear-driven brutality of the primitive human survival intinct and makes way for a thoughtful, intentional, peaceful, humane response. Peaceful coexistence on this lovely planet is not impossible. It is imperative. Our future, our humanity, our very survival depends on it.”
― L.R. Knost

“Whoever believes in the myth of ‘peaceful coexistence that marked the relationships between the conquered and the conquerors’ should reread the stories of the burned convents and monasteries, of the profaned churches, of the raped nuns, of the Christian or Jewish women abducted to be locked away in their harems. He should ponder on the crucifixions of Cordoba, the hangings of Granada, the beheadings of Toledo and Barcelona, of Seville and Zamora. (The beheadings of Seville, ordered by Mutamid: the king who used those severed heads, heads of Jews and Christians, to adorn his palace). Invoking the name of Jesus meant instant execution. Crucifixion, of course, or decapitation or hanging or impalement. Ringing a bell, the same. Wearing green, the colour of Islam, also. And when a Muslim passed by, every Jew and Christian was obliged to step aside. To bow. And mind to the Jew or the Christian who dared react to the insults of a Muslim. As for the much-flaunted detail that the infidel-dogs were not obliged to convert to Islam, not even encouraged to do so, do you know why they were not? Because those who converted to Islam did not pay taxes. Those who refused, on the contrary, did.”
― Oriana Fallaci, The Force of Reason

“C'etait un jour de fete.
Mais l'haine se repete.
Laissez pas la peur dominer le coeur,
Si on veut que l'amour soit vainqueur”
― Ana Claudia Antunes, L'Amante de Victor Hugo

“I am present
I am light
I am love
I am tolerant
I am accepting
I am whole
I coexist”
― Ora Nadrich, Live True: A Mindfulness Guide to Authenticity

“We can accept each other and be together without giving up our differences. It’s useless – even foolish – to reduce us to a common denominator.”
― Arianna Dagnino, The Afrikaner

“Interaction with self, with other human beings, and with Nature, all should lead to harmony and peace. That is the purpose of life.”
― Anand Damani

“Meditation is the best form of exercise for the mind; it creates a wonderful and harmonious coexistence between the body, mind and nature.”
― Debasish Mridha

“The whole concept of “competition” needs to be revisited. In my view, competition and wisdom are two different paths that will never intersect ... we need to seek wisdom rather than playing games and politics against our peers to get status and power.”
― Louis Yako

“I truly exist only when I can help my fellow beings exist alongside with me.”
― Amit Abraham

“Acceptance is a thing... look into it.

If it is something in you, about you, done by you... and you aren't happy with it... you don't have to accept it. You have the power to affect change.

If it something in someone else, about someone else, done by someone else... and it doesn't directly effect you in a negative way (actual effect, not perceived, mind you) ... you can rally against it, or accept it. While you may have the power in someway to force change on others... acceptance is also totally a real thing... seriously. Look into it.

Don't like what others think, or feel, or do with their lives? Neat.

Do those things have a direct negative impact on you?

If yes, then communicate (in whatever means are situationally appropriate) and seek a positive resolution.

If no, then do as I tell my eight and ten year old children... ignore them.

You... no matter your age, gender, sexual orientation, belief structure, occupation, or affluence (real or perceived)... You absolutely have the right to accept others.

Honest.”
― Dennis Sharpe

“الإبقاء على الزيف القاتل جريمة بحق الإنسانية ما دام يضره بطريقتين: نشر الكراهية وانعدام التعايش الذي يتسبب بنشوب الحروب في أرجاء الأرض، وتجميد العقل بطريقة تعيق تقدم الحضارة الإنسانية.”
― جلجامش نبيل, Gilgamesh Nabeel, صراع الأقنعة

“ليس من الضروري أن تجعل الآخر نسخة منك لكي تتقبله وتتعايش معه.”
― جلجامش نبيل, Gilgamesh Nabeel, صراع الأقنعة

“The societies which do not learn to coexist in peace always live in fear and poverty.

From: One Vs All”
― Dr.Ashok Anand

“The message of Islam is by no means a closed value system at variance or conflict with other value systems. From the very start, the Prophet did not conceive the content of his message as the expression of pure otherness versus what the Arabs or the other societies of his time were producing. Islam does not establish a closed universe of reference but rather relies on a set of universal principles that can coincide with the fundamentals and values of other beliefs and religious traditions (even those produced by a polytheistic society such as that of Mecca at the time). Islam is a message of justice that entails resisting oppression and protecting the dignity of the oppressed and the poor, and Muslims must recognize the moral value of a law or contract stipulating this requirement, whoever its authors and whatever the society, Muslim or not. Far from building an allegiance to Islam in which recognition and loyalty are exclusive to the community of faith, the Prophet strove to develop the believer's conscience through adherence to principles transcending closed allegiances in the name of a primary loyalty to universal principles themselves. The last message brings nothing new to the affirmation of the principles of human dignity, justice, and equality: it merely recalls and confirms them. As regards moral values, the same intuition is present when the Prophet speaks of the equalities of individuals before and in Islam: 'The best among you [as to their human and moral qualities] during the era before Islam [al-jahiliyyah] are the best in Islam, provided they understand it [Islam].' The moral value of a human being reaches far beyond belonging to a particular universe of reference; within Islam, it requires added knowledge and understanding in order to grasp properly what Islam confirms (the principle of justice) and what it demands should be reformed (all forms of idol worship).”
― Tariq Ramadan, In the Footsteps of the Prophet: Lessons from the Life of Muhammad

“this ones who think of others and those who think of themselves, the unmistakable truth that these two cannot coexist!”
― Hiroya Oku, Gantz /15

“None of us has ever felt the slightest discrimination against us by the majority. I think that the last point to be made about it is the whole concept of the relationship between a minority and a majority in the Arab world is not easily perceived by a European or a Westerner, who always thinks in the categories of Western racism and Western discrimination against oppressed minorities.”
― Edward W. Said

“Being sworn at by woodland creatures is disquieting, but comforting too...these alarm calls remind me that we have consequential presence, that the animals we like to watch are creatures with their own needs, desires, emotions, lives.”
― Helen Macdonald, Vesper Flights

“Man has failed to know himself or understand his relationship with existential elements including other humans.”
― Anand Damani