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The Holistic World Planetary Paradigm of The Spiritual UN
Caring About the Whole
Planet through
A Heart Centered Human Race for the Best in All
The Teilhard de Chardin Visionary Track for the Earth and Humanity
"Love is the affinity which links and
draws together the elements of the world... Love, in fact, is the agent
of universal synthesis."
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"Truth is the Essence of Love.
There can be no Love without Truth."
A Salute to theTruth
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"The ultimate measure of a man is
not where he stands in times of comfort and convenience,
but
where he stands in times of challenge and controversy.
Cowardice asks the question: Is
it safe? Expedience asks the question: Is it politic?
Vanity
asks the question: Is it popular? But conscience asks the
question: Is it right?
And a time comes when man must
take a stand that’s neither safe, nor politic, nor popular,
but
one must take it because it’s right.”
– Martin Luther King Jr.
"All Truth Passes Through Three Stages:
First, it is ridiculed.
Second, it is violently opposed.
Third, it is accepted as being self-evident"
–
Arthur Schopenhauer, German philosopher (1788 -
1860)
"Every truth must be accompanied by some corresponding act."
–George
MacDonald
Morality and Reality
"All human beings desire to know, and truth is the proper object of this desire. Although each individual has a right to be respected in his or her own journey in search of the truth, there exists a prior moral obligation [i.e. a moral obligation that precedes all other moral obligations], and a grave one at that, to seek the truth and to adhere to it once it is known. People cannot be genuinely indifferent to the question of whether what they know is true or not. The thirst for truth is so rooted in the human heart that to be obliged to ignore it would cast our existence into jeopardy." – John Paul II
"Self deception, lying to oneself about what is the truth, contains within it the capacity to cast our existence into jeopardy. By self-deception a person commits his or her life to an existence in a whirlpool of illusion: illusion about God, about reality, about human beings, their value and purpose, about good and evil, about what is important and how to use time, etc. Even those morally valid truths that a person honestly holds will be contaminated, if not rendered false, by self-deception, as the self deceiver is forced to "validate" the lies and illusions of self-deception by misusing, manipulating, misinterpreting and misapplying authentically held truth." –Fr. Emmanuel C. McCarthy [on Day 10 of a 40-day fast for the Truth of Gospel Nonviolence]
Restore us, O Lord, that we may be restored. Renew our days as of old.|
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