Welcome back to our blog
for the New Year. We thought we would start
2017 once again with a message from the Tanenbaum Center for Interreligious Understanding,
an organization that we have featured on our blog on different occasions. Check out their resources and programs for
teachers and principals at https://tanenbaum.org/programs/education/
Below Tanenbaum shares
the wisdom from across the world’s faiths and beliefs to guide and ground us
throughout 2017.
It is not always physical
bravery that counts. One must have the courage to face life as it is, to go
through sorrows and always sacrifice oneself for the sake of others. African
Traditional Religions Kipsigis Saying (Kenya)
Baha’i
Take pride not in love
for yourselves but in love for your fellow-creatures. Glory not in love for
your country, but in love for all mankind. Bahau’ullah, Tablets of Wisdom
Buddhism
Bodhisattvas (enlightened
beings) of great strength delight in reconciliation of conflict. Holy Teaching
of Vimalakirti 8
Hinduism
What sort of religion can
it be without compassion? You need to show compassion to all living beings.
Compassion is the root of all religious faiths. Basasvanna, Vachana 247
Islam
A man once asked the
Prophet what was the best thing in Islam, and the latter replied, “It is to
feed the hungry and to give the greeting of peace both to those one knows and
to those one does not know.” Hadith of Bukhari
Jainism
Have benevolence toward
all living beings, joy at the sight of the virtuous, compassion and sympathy
for the afflicted, and tolerance towards the indolent and ill-behaved.
Tattvartha Sutra 7.11
Judaism
The whole of the Torah is
for the purpose of promoting peace. Talmud, Gittin 59b
There lies before us, if
we choose, continual progress in happiness, knowledge, and wisdom. Shall we,
instead, choose death, because we cannot forget our quarrels? We appeal as
human beings to human beings: Remember your humanity, and forget the rest.
Bertrand Russell, Russell-Einstein Manifesto
Shinto
To be helpful to others
and in the world at large through deeds of service without thought of rewards,
and to seek the advancement of the world as one whose life mediates the will of
Kami. Jinja Shinto Principle
Sikhism
Taoism
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