What I am is a proud humanist. Atheism says what I don't accept, humanism says what I do." - Nathan Phelps
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Let us each take up our flaming torches and mount as the blazing fireballs of light that we are and let's burn the skies and leave it with deep scars and let them be our signatures upon eternity as we go forth!
God is colourblind. But we are not God. God does not need to see colour and difference. God is far bigger than all of that. We are human. We are destined to grow and learn from each other and with each other and there is no growing, there is no learning, there is no wonder and no majesty in life if we were like God. We were meant to see colour and difference.To deny these is to lack respect. To blind ourselves to these is to fool one another. To shun these is to deny ourselves growth and knowledge.
There is something simply beautiful and simply innocent, in being human. It is just so innocent and beautiful. I love it.
I am a broken person. And I know exactly where my cracks are and how deep they run. I don't pretend to not be a broken person and therein lies the big difference. Because the truth is, we are all broken in places, but it is those who know exactly where and how they are broken, who also know exactly where and how they are whole! And we may not be whole in all places and in all ways, but we take whatever wholeness that we do have, and we make good of it. And we try hard to work on the broken parts, and we ask for help when we need it.
Anger is an essential part of being human. People are taught to deny themselves anger, and in this, they are actually opening themselves up to hate. The more you deny yourself the freedom to be angry, the more you will hate. Let yourself be angry, and hate will disintegrate, and when hate disintegrates, forgiveness prevails! The more you deny that you are angry, in attempts to be "holy" the more inhuman you will become, and the more inhuman you will become, the harder it will be to forgive.
My spirit is healthy, yes. But I tell you, my flesh is healthy too. I am enlightened and free, but I am also lustful and carnal.
Humanity is not a word my friend. It is a symbol _ a symbol of hope _ a symbol of wisdom _ yet this very symbol has become disgraced by our faults and deluded justification of mistakes.
The more we humanize the society, the more we will become humans.
What is the point of being humans, if our actions scream with more bestiality than humanity!
Arise, my friend _ the world is wailing for kindness _ it is wailing for compassion _ it is wailing for love.
Make films that purify the soul with the flow of rational, vigorous and compassionate thinking.
Use filmmaking to eliminate racism _ use to it terminate misogyny _ use it to destroy homophobia and all other primitiveness.
Start working my friend _ start working towards humanizing the world. Because the world needs humans _ conscientious humans, not some dumb manikins, driven by prejudice and discrimination.
Become a human and call upon the humans in others. And in time the world shall become a real abode of peace.
__hrough ignorance a common man considers his own religion to be the best and makes much useless claims, but when his mind is illuminated by Self-Knowledge, all sectarian quarrels disappear.
Man and woman are the two wheels of society. If either one becomes defective, the society cannot make progress.
Love is a combination of care, commitment, knowledge, responsibility, respect and trust.