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Buddha came with the lamp of love in his hand and asked to come and see for themselves the truth of all beings. He said, "Do not fear, don't depend on the authorities of others. Light your mind from my lamp and see for yourself. The right knowledge is within your reach."
Buddha said, "There is a path to peace. Hatred never ceases by hatred, overcome hatred by love and compassion. This is my way of universal peace. Those who love me should show it by loving all. Conquer the greed; thereby one becomes the unconquerable victor. Every man loves liberty and freedom. Do not interfere with another's freedom."
Lord, make me a channel of thy peace - that where there is hatred, I may bring love - that where there is wrong, I may bring the spirit of forgiveness - that where there is discord, I may bring harmony - that where there is error, I may bring truth - that where there is doubt, I may bring faith - that where there is despair, I may bring hope - that where there are shadows, I may bring light - that where there is sadness, I may bring joy. Lord, grant that I may seek rather to comfort than to be comforted - to understand, than to be understood - to love, than to be loved. For it is by self-forgetting that one finds. It is by forgiving that one is forgiven. It is by dying that one awakens to Eternal Life. Amen.
Love is patient; love is kind and envies no one. Love is never boastful, nor conceited, nor rude; never selfish, not quick to take offence. Love keeps no score of wrongs; does not gloat over other men's sins, but delights in the truth. There is nothing love cannot face; there is no limit to its faith, its hope, and its endurance.
Love will never come to an end. Are there prophets? their work will be over. Are there tongues of ecstasy? they will cease. Is there knowledge? it will vanish away; for our knowledge and our prophecy alike are partial, and the partial vanishes when wholeness comes. When I was a child, my speech, my outlook, and my thoughts were all childish. When I grew up, I had finished with childish things. Now we see only puzzling reflections in a mirror, but then we shall see face to face. My knowledge now is partial; then it will be whole, like God's knowledge of me. In a word, there are three things that last for ever: faith, hope, and love; but the greatest of them all is love.
1 Corinthians 13
It is easy to think of the poverty far away and forget very quickly. Today a great disease is that feeling of terrible lonliness, the feeling of being unwanted, having forgotten what human joy is, what the human feeling is of being wanted or loved. I think this is found in very well-to-do families also.
We may not have people hungry for a plate of rice or for a piece of bread in New York City, but there is a tremendous hunger and a tremendous feeling of unwantedness everywhere. And that is really a very great poverty.
- Mother Teresa
Aloha ke Akua, God is aloha... We do not do good only to those who do good to us. One of the sweetest things about the love of God, about aloha, is that it welcomes the stranger and seeks his good. A person who has the spirit of aloha loves even when that love is not returned... the real Golden Rule is aloha.
- Reverend Abraham Akaka during his speech the day Hawaii became a state in 1959