This is a slide-show which features inspiring quotations from a wide range of mainly religious sources. It is designed to encourage thought and reflection, appreciation of difference and positive relationships between communities.

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4. Texts and images have been chosen from many
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than follow a particular formula. If your community
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or less ‘space’ than others, please try to feel a sense
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We hope you enjoy watching
‘ Reflections on Life’

7. …Aum ~
Shanti ~
Peace ~
Shanti ~
Aum…

9. The structure of an atom

10. A diagram of the Solar System

11. All truth is eternal.
Truth is nobody’s property;
no race,
no individual
can lay any
exclusive
claim to it.
Truth is the nature
of all souls.
Swami Vivekananda

13. And the earth was without form, and
void; and darkness was upon the face
of the deep.
And the Spirit of God moved upon the
face of the waters.
Genesis 1 verse 2

15. And God said,
Let there be light:
and there was light.
Genesis 1 verse 3

16. And God saw the light,
And He saw
that it was good:
Genesis 1 verse 4

17. And God
said, Let the
waters under
the heaven be
gathered
together unto
one place,
and
let the dry
land appear:
and it was so.
Genesis 1 verse 9 - 10
And God
called the dry
land Earth;
and the
gathering
together of the
waters called
he Seas:

18. and God saw that it was good

21. Come out into the universe of Light.
Everything in the universe
is yours.
Stretch out your arms
and embrace it
with love.
If you ever felt
you wanted to do that,
you have felt God.
Swami Vivekananda

26. “Music gives soul to the universe
wings to the mind
flight to the imagination
and life to everything"
Plato

29. … all problems of existence
are essentially problems of
harmony.

33. Medicine to produce health
must examine disease;
and music,
to create harmony
must investigate discord.
Plutarch

36. Better than
a thousand hollow words
is one word that brings peace.
The Buddha (560-483 B.C.E.)

39. If you want to make peace with your
enemy, you have to work
with your enemy.
Then he becomes
your partner.
Nelson Mandela

46. If we are peaceful, if we are happy,
we can smile and blossom like a flower,
and everyone in our family, our entire
society, will benefit from our peace.
Thich Nhat Hanh

49. Climb the mountains
and get their good tidings.
Nature's peace will flow into you as
sunshine flows into trees.
The winds will blow their own freshness
into you, and the storms their energy,
while cares will drop off like autumn leaves.
John Muir (1838-1914)

56. Peace
Is in self-conquest.
self-conquest

59. To study the Way
is to study the self.
To study the self
is to forget the self.
To forget the self
is to be enlightened by all things.
To be enlightened by all things
is to remove the barriers
between oneself and others.
Dogen Zenji

63. Love came and
emptied me of self,
every vein and
every pore,
made into
a container
to be filled by
the Beloved….

64. …. Of me,
only a
name
is left,
the rest
is You
my Friend,
my
Beloved.
Abu-Said Abil-Kheir

66. Faith is taking
the first step even
when you don't
see the whole
staircase.
- Martin Luther King Jr.

75. Look to this Day!
For it is Life, the very Life of Life.
In its brief course lie all the
Verities and Realities of Existence.
The Bliss of Growth,
The Glory of Action,
The Splendour of Beauty;…..

76. ….For Yesterday is already a Dream,
And Tomorrow is only a Vision;
But Today well lived makes
Every Yesterday a Dream of Happiness,
And every Tomorrow a Vision of Hope.
Look well therefore
to this Day!
KALIDASA translated from the Sanskrit

84. If there is to be peace in the world,
There must be peace in the nations.
If there is to be peace in the nations,
There must be peace in the cities.
If there is to be peace in the cities,
There must be peace between neighbours...

85. …..If there is to be peace
between neighbours,
There must be peace
in the home.
If there is to be
peace in the home,
There must be peace
in the heart.
-- Lao Tzu (570-490 B.C.)

87. Just as treasures are
uncovered
from the earth, so virtue
appears from good deeds,
and wisdom appears
from a pure and peaceful
mind.

90. However many
holy words
you read,
however many
you speak,
what good
will they
do you
if you
do not
act
upon them?
The Buddha

92. "He
who offers to me
with devotion
only a leaf,
or a flower,
or a fruit,
or even
a little water,
this I accept
from that
yearning soul,
because
with a pure heart
it was offered
with love."
Sri Krishna (Gita 9.26)

96. "In any way that men love me
in that same way they find my love:
for many are the paths of men,
but they all in the end
come to me."
Sri Krishna (Geeta)

108. Once Mohammed(peace and blessings upon him)
was travelling with some friends. They
were just starting to make a cooking fire
when Mohammed(pbuh) asked them
to light it in another place as it was
too close to an ants nest.
His concern and compassion were for
all Allah’s creatures, even the little ants.

112. …. Don't open the door to the
study and begin reading. Take
down
the dulcimer.
Let the beauty
we love
be what we do.
There are hundreds of ways
to kneel and kiss the
ground.
Mevlana Jelaluddin Rumi (1207 -

115. My Supreme,
my Supreme,
my Supreme!
My true
spirituality
Is the love
of Your Breath
In every heart.
My Supreme,
my Supreme,
my Supreme!
Sri Chinmoy

118. Blessed are the peacemakers for they
shall be called
the children of God.
Jesus – from the
Gospel of St. Matthew

125. "You are that which you intend to hit,
injure, insult, torment, persecute,
torture, enslave
or kill“
Mahavira

128. Find the One everywhere
and in everything
and there will be an end
to pain and suffering.
Sri Anandaymoy Ma

132. Walk cheerfully
over the earth
answering
that of God
in all.
George Fox
(Founder of the Quaker branch of Christianity)

134. Yes We Can.
Barak Obama

137. All works of love
are works of peace.
Mother Theresa

146. “I tell you one thing – if you want
peace of mind, do not find fault with
others.
Rather learn to see your own faults.
Learn to make the whole world your own.
No one is a stranger, my child;
this whole world is your own.”
Sri Sarada Devi

153. Do not try to change the world.
You will fail.
Try to love the world.
Lo, the world is changed.
Changed
forever.
Sri Chinmoy

159. All things are connected.
Whatever befalls the earth
befalls the sons of the earth.
Man did not weave the web of life.
He is merely a strand in it.
Whatever he does to the web,
he does to himself.
Chief Seattle

163. …you are bound to gain
mastery if you are
true to faith.
Qur’an - Sura 3 ;139

170. Life is God’s Blessing to His Creation
Life is Will… The descending cry
of Concern and Compassion
The Ascending cry
of love and helplessness.
Life is man’s experience of wisdom and faith.
Life is man’s conscious attempt
to see God face to Face.
from an essay on life by Sri Chinmoy

179. "Ye are all leaves of one tree
and the fruits of one branch.“
Bahá'u'lláh

181. "I find one vast garden
spread out all over the universe.
All plants, all human beings, all higher mind
bodies
are about in this garden in various ways ,
each has his own uniqueness and beauty.
Their presence and variety give me great
delight.
Every one of you adds with your special
feature
to the glory of the garden.“

185. "Yesterday is gone.
Tomorrow has not yet come.
We have only today.
Let us begin."
Mother Teresa

191. " May there only be peaceful and
cheerful Earth Days to come for
our
beautiful Spaceship Earth as it
continues to spin and circle in
frigid
space with its warm and fragile
cargo
of animate life. “

193. Infinity is this
Infinity is that.
When infinity
from infinity
Is taken away
Infinity remains…
The Upanishads

194. …And He saw that it was Good…
Genesis ch 1

195. …Aum ~
Shanti ~
Peace ~
Shanti ~
Aum…

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