The Power of Sanctuary

The day the power of love

overrules the love of power,

the world will know peace.

Mahatma Gandhi

If we could live happy and healthy lives

without harming others, why wouldn't we?

Pam Ahern

Kindness, I discovered, is everything in life.

Isaac Bashevis Singer

Our fate is inextricably linked to the health and

resilience of the earth and our fellow earthlings,

and when these are harmed and made to suffer,

so are we.

Gene Baur

Power is actualized only where word

and deed have not parted company,

where words are not empty and deeds

not brutal, where words are not used

to veil intentions but to disclose realities,

and deeds are not used to violate and

destroy but to establish relations

and create new realities.

Hannah Arendt

Man can no longer live for himself alone.

We must realize that all life is valuable

and that we are united to all life.

Albert Schweitzer

We can judge the heart of a man

by his treatment of animals.

Immanuel Kant

In compassion lies the world's true strength.

Buddha

I believe that the reson of life is for

each of us simply to grow in love.

Leo Tolstoy

A truth cannot be reached in scripture,

a truth has to be lived in

the innermost temple of your being.

Osho

Just how destructive does a culinary preference

have to be before we decide to eat something else?

If contributing to the suffering of billions of

animals that live miserable lives and, quite often,

die in horrific ways isn't motivating,

what would be?

If being the number one contributor to the most

serious threat facing the planet isn't enough,

what is? And if you are tempted to put off

these questions of your conscience,

to say not now, then when?

Jonathan Safran Foer

The heart of a good man is the sanctuary

of God in this world.

Suzanne Curchod

The animals of the world exist

for their own reasons.

They were not made for humans

any more than black people

were made for white,

or women created for men.

Alice Walker

All were happy - birds, insects and children.

But grown-up people never left off cheating and

tormenting themselves and one another. It was

not this spring morning which they considered

sacred and important, not the beauty of God's

world, given to all creatures to enjoy -

a beauty which inclines the heart to peace,

to harmony and to love. No, what they

considered sacred were their own devices

for wielding power over each other.

Leo Tolstoy

Remember, the entrance door

to the sanctuary is inside you.

Rumi