[GMW #791] Replacing Infalibility & Fundamentalism With Understanding, Cooperation, Adaptation
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Two of the worst principles and words still used on planet Earth are: fundamentalism and infallibility. Examples:
my nation, right or wrong
my religion, right or wrong
my business, right or wrong
the infallibility of religious leaders, etc.
The two words should be eliminated from human language. No human person, no human institution can be totally right and infallible. We are all imperfect, if only in minimal ways Human progress can continue only if we learn from each other and cooperate. After the era of competition we are entering the new, evolutionary era of adaptation and cooperation which will produce wonders.
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Daily Idea Dream Topics: Peace, Idea Dreams 6001-6500, Ending War,
Earth's Ecology, Religion & Spirituality |
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| Robert's Golden Sayings |
Faith energizes our will to resolve problems. Without faith there can be no will for action.
* Hope is the antidote to the impossible.
* We need a new vision of the world as a miraculous interdependent fabric and whole.
* Do not hate. Help.
* The world needs a theology of peace, not of just war. There is no uglier and contradictory word than ‘just war’. Do we speak of ‘loving killing’?
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| My Testament to the UN
-A Contribution to the 50th Anniversary of the United Nations, 1995, Chapter 6 |
A body is not necessarily sick because of a few local wounds. Heal those wounds but do not give up the whole body. Yet this is how many people behave towards the UN. Their insistence on having a perfect UN instantly may lead to having no UN at all.
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So the sea-journey goes on, and who know where! Just to be held by the Ocean is the best luck we could have.
Jelaluddin Rumi, translated by Coleman Barks
The Essential Rumi
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