Quotes about Beings

Our people believed every creature had a spark—nitzotz—that which was holy, and we were to show kindness and compassion to all beings, what we called baal chayyim. All animals praise God, as we do, with their songs and their voices. In midwinter, we dedicated a Sabbath to the birds, to offer our gratitude and acknowledge that it is their songs that have taught mankind how to chant and praise the glory of our Creator.

This embodied [soul] is eternally unslayableIn the body of everyone, son of Bharata;Therefore all beingsThou shouldst not mourn.Likewise having regard for thine own [caste] dutyThou shouldst not tremble;For another, better thing than a fight required of dutyExists not for a warrior.

Those (who) seek to establish systems of Government based on the regimentation of all Human Beings by a handful of individual rulers...call this a new order. It is not new and it is not order.

Climate change: Never before in history have human beings been called on to act collectively in defense of the Earth.

As for the demented, I hold it certain that all beings deprived of reason are thus afflicted only by the Devil.

If you are a stranger to prayer, you are a stranger to the greatest source of power known to human beings.

Most people think that shadows follow, precede or surround beings or objects. The truth is that they also surround words, ideas, desires, deeds, impulses and memories.

Love that makes everything complicated. While hate simplifies everything. Hatred puts accents on things and beings, and on what separates them. Love erases accents.

In all the great religious systems, there are divine beings who represent the feminine face of the divine.

We live at a moment when our relationships to each other, and to all other beings with whom we share this planet, are up for grabs.

Human beings are naturally hierarchical beasts. Democracy is not their native religion.

Rats and roaches live by competition under the laws of supply and demand; it is the privilege of human beings to live under the laws of justice and mercy.