QUOTABLE
QUOTES
"Forgive
us our debts as we forgive our debtors" St..Luke
"There is no wealth but life. Life, including all its powers
of love, of joy, and of admiration. That country is the richest
which nourishes the greatest number of noble and happy human beings;
that man is richest who, having perfected the functions of his
own life to the utmost, has also the widest helpful influence,
both personal, and by means of his possessions, over the lives
of others". John Ruskin, Unto This Last
"Money is human happiness in the abstract: and so, the person
who is no longer capable of enjoying such happiness in the concrete
sets his whole heart on money" Arthur Schopenauer
"Those who swallow usury cannot rise except as one whom Satan
has prostrate by his touch" The Koran
"People of the same trade seldom meet together even for merriment
and diversion, but the conversation ends in a conspiracy against
the public or some contrivance to raise prices." Adam
Smith, The Wealth of Nations
The God Thing: Ecumenical' derives from roots meaning something
akin to 'one inhabited earth' : thus this noble offering on a
word that can be closely linked with the intention of the God
thing, the Tao, spirituality and all attempts in good faith to
sense, if not ever fully to find, the ultimate context for a dynamic
economic system based on just living and shalom.......
A CONTRIBUTION TO 'INSTINCTIVE' ECUMENISM' ...... SELF-TRANSCENDENCE
- A VITAL VALUE IN COMPLEXITY AND IN LIVING SYSTEMS AND THE SEARCH
FOR INCLUSIVE JUSTICE
'In today's multi-cultural world, the truly reliable party to
co-existence, to peace ful co-existence and creative co-operation,
must start from what is at the root of all cultures and what lies
infinitely deeper in human hearts and minds than political opinions,
convictions, antipathies and sympathies : it must be rooted in
self-transcendence.
Transcendence as a hand reaching out to those close to us, to
foreigners, to the human community, to all living creatures, to
nature, to the universe: transcendence as a deeply and joyously
experienced need to be in harmony even with what we ourselves
are not, what we do not understand, what seems distant form us
in time and space, but which we are nevertheless mysteriously
linked because, together with us, all this constitutes a single
world. Transcendence is the only real alternative to extinction."
Vaclav Havel
"Inclusive justice requires learning to slay giants
without slaying or flaying people; to alter mindsets without affronting
the dignity of those who differ on the fundamental flaws in our
economic system."
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