We can scarcely hate anyone that we truly know. (William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 British Essayist)

I think we have to own the fears that we have of each other, and then, in some practical way, some daily way, figure out how to see people differently than the way we were brought up to. (Alice Walker)

It takes a disciplined person to listen to convictions which are different from their own. (Dorothy Fuldman)

Man is always inclined to be intolerant towards the thing, or person, he hasn't taken the time adequately to understand. (Robert R. Brown)

Civilizations should be measured by the degree of diversity attained and the degree of unity retained. (W.H. Auden)

The goal of compassion is not to care because someone is like us but to care because they are themselves. (Mary Lou Randour)

We're forever focusing upon our differences, and never noticing how much we're all alike. (Dean Fraser)

Peace is a state of being in which one accepts all others and all circumstances as they are - unconditionally. (The Buffalo Kingdom through Karen Danrich "Mila") - www.ascendpress.org

When you find peace within yourself, you become the kind of person who can live at peace with others. (Peace Pilgrim, 1908-1981 American Peace Activist)

One of the marks of a gentleman is his refusal to make an issue out of every difference of opinion. (Unknown)

What a better world this would be if people spent as much energy practicing their religion as they spend quarrelling about it. (Unknown)

So many Gods, so many creeds, so many paths that wind and wind; while just the art of being kind is all this sad world needs. (Ella Wheeler Wilcox)

There is no right or wrong; only the experience of the dance of life. Each experience teaches soul something that allows for greater understanding and evolution of truth, and ultimately the evolution of All That Is. (The Rabbit Kingdom through Karen Danrich "Mila") - www.ascendpress.org

With internal knowing, one follows one's own truth. One's truth is one's truth and there is no need to challenge, confront, confuse or invalidate another - for each has their own inherent truth and knowing. (Unknown)

It is judgment that polarizes one against another. It is understanding that allows for non-judgment and finding the middle ground in which one can be neutral about all things. (Spiritual School of Ascension) - www.ascendpress.org

The tendency toward judgment is one of the most insidious stumbling blocks to your progress. To free yourself, you must first free the world around you. It is your current misconception that you think you will have more if someone else has less; not so! The bounty of Creation is infinite. You are, all of you, Christ-like limitless beings and only when you have had enough of pretending that you are not, will you remember your true nature. All things, from a planet to an ant, are children of the I AM. It is irrelevant whether or not you believe this. What matters is that it IS so. And the immanence of this divine truth is the reason why the statement: "the truth shall set you free," is literally correct and relevant. Truth is a Universal Constant. It is never relative. However, its expression and application are ever expanding and perpetually changing.

Life is the interaction of all things, and we must learn to respect everyone, as we all will journey in different directions. To accept life as a passage through time is to understand that people will indeed fulfill their own destinies as they travel the roads only they alone can travel. (Unknown)

To maintain a state of forgiveness, initiates must learn to unconditionally allow all viewpoints of truth upon all planes of reality. Within the experience of judgment, one truth is pitted against another and compared. In comparison, one truth becomes overvalued and another undervalued. In the experience of co-creation, each human form experiences a unique expression of truth. Only the God/Goddess who embodies all of human form - that is our Planetary Logos - has the luxury of experiencing all of the collective truths expressed within humanity simultaneously. All truths are a necessary part of the whole. As initiates learn to honor all truths as valid, important and necessary; they will simultaneously learn to unconditionally accept their own unique truth and soul purpose upon the Earth. (Lord and Lady Rize) - www.ascendpress.org

...do not expect everyone to appreciate or get excited about something you have read or heard that has so much meaning for you. Just as you are seeking your highest truth, you must allow others the same right. (Archangel Michael through Ronna Herman) - www.RonnaStar.com (Source: Sedona Journal of Emergence - January 2004) - www.sedonajournal.com

Take no thought of who is right or wrong or who is better than. Be not for or against. (Bruce Lee, 1940-1973 Chinese-American Actor Director Author Martial Artist)

The more I traveled the more I realized that fear makes strangers of people who should be friends. (Shirley Maclaine, 1934 American Actress)

Often what may accompany one teacher or group of like minds is the idea that others might tie into and even accept their position, usually at the exclusion of all other teachings. These ego situations are what many humans are still seeking to overcome. I encourage each of you to keep in mind that the Earth mission, the mission sanctioned by the One Creator, can only be successful when there is love, understanding and acceptance between such groups. You must learn to accept each other and even encourage the flexibility that others may know more than you about some things. But no one knows all things, so each of you is an important link to the light work. (Ashtar) - www.ascension.net/LibraryCategories.asp?category=6

I find that because of modern technological evolution and our global economy, and as a result of the great increase in population, our world has greatly changed: it has become much smaller. However, our perceptions have not evolved at the same pace; we continue to cling to old national demarcations and the old feelings of 'us' and 'them'. (Dalai Lama)

The demand for equal rights in every vocation of life is just and fair; but, after all, the most vital right is the right to love and be loved. (Emma Goldman, 1869-1940 American Anarchist)

Happiness can exist only in acceptance. (Denis De Rougamont)

Though we all have the fear and the seeds of anger within us, we must learn not to water those seeds and instead nourish our positive qualities – those of compassion, understanding, and loving kindness. (Thich Nhat Hanh)

Kindness is the light that dissolves all walls between souls, families, and nations. (Paramahansa Yogananda)

Peace starts with a smile. (Mother Theresa)

Constant kindness can accomplish much. As the sun makes ice melt, kindness causes misunderstanding, mistrust and hostility to evaporate. (Albert Schweitzer)

Each person has inside a basic decency and goodness. If he listens to it and acts on it, he is giving a great deal of what it is the world needs most. (Pablo Casals, Spanish Cellist)

When you perceive a person to be less intelligent; remind yourself that they are a point of consciousness that is simply experiencing less access to its total self, which is pure intelligence. For whatever reason, this is the role that their soul has chosen to play. (Unknown)

To be angry with a weak man is proof that you are not so strong yourself. (Unknown)

Acceptance of others, their looks, their behaviors, their beliefs, bring you an inner peace and tranquility - instead of anger and resentment. (Unknown)

...Earth is a free will zone and so there are things that are done here by human kind that would not be done anywhere else by other living entities. Also, there are things that occur in nature, on Earth, that would not occur anywhere else, either, because of free will. The planet also has free will, you see. (Ashtar) - www.ascension.net/LibraryCategories.asp?category=6

...while every human being has a capacity for love, its realization is one of the most difficult achievements. (Erich Fromm)

To sit in judgment of those things which you perceive to be wrong or imperfect is to be one more person who is part of judgment, evil or imperfection. (Wayne Dyer, 1940 American Psychotherapist Author Lecturer)

It is easy to condemn, it is better to pity. (Lyman Abbott, 1835-1922 American Congregational Clergyman and Editor)

If you do not understand a man you cannot crush him. And if you do understand him, very probably you will not. (Gilbert K. Chesterton, 1874-1936 British Author)

Who are enemies? Only those who oppose each others will. (Mary Caroline Richards)

Respect your fellow human being, treat them fairly, disagree with them honestly, enjoy their friendship, explore your thoughts about one another candidly, work together for a common goal and help one another achieve it. No destructive lies. No ridiculous fears. No debilitating anger. (Bill Bradley)

The greatest obstacle to progress is prejudice. (Bavee)

The greatest problem in the world today is intolerance. Everyone is so intolerant of each other. (Princess Diana of Wales, 1961-1997)

The inability to forgive, that is the lack of compassion, is really nothing more than lack of knowledge. (Ron Smothermon)

Just as you have the instinctive natural desire to be happy and overcome suffering, so do all sentient beings; just as you have the right to fulfill this innate aspiration, so do all sentient beings. So on what exact grounds do you discriminate? (Dalai Lama)

Toleration is the best religion. (Victor Hugo)

The highest result of education is tolerance. (Helen Keller)

Almost always, it is the conviction that 'I am right' or 'my cause is the cause of justice' that triggers violence. That is, ...the moment propaganda does its work, violence is unleashed. And violence can be reduced by countering this propaganda. (Jacques Ellul)

If we leave somebody behind for something as ridiculous as skin color, we all lose. (Janet Langert, wife of Secretary of Defense William Cohen)

Intolerance is itself a form of violence and an obstacle to the growth of a true democratic spirit. (Gandhi)

Intolerance is evidence of fear, and fear is the consequence of feeling powerless. (Dean Fraser)

Intolerance is the “Do Not Touch” sign on something that cannot bear touching. We do not mind having our hair ruffled, but we will not tolerate any familiarity with the toupee which covers our baldness. (Eric Hoffer, 1902-1983 American Author Philosopher)

Intolerance is a form of egotism, and to condemn egotism intolerantly is to share it. (George Santayana, 1863-1952 American Philosopher Poet)

I have seen great intolerance shown in support of tolerance. (Samuel Taylor Coleridge, 1772-1834 British Poet Critic Philosopher)

Intolerance is the most socially acceptable form of egotism, for it permits us to assume superiority without personal boasting. (Sidney J. Harris, 1917 American Journalist)

Prejudices, it is well known, are most difficult to eradicate from the heart whose soil has never been loosened or fertilized by education; they grow there, firm as weeds among stones. (Charlotte Bronte, 1816-1855 British Novelist)

I'm interested in the fact that the less secure a man is, the more likely he is to have extreme prejudice. (Clint Eastwood, 1930 American Actor Director Politician Composer Musician Producer)

He who never leaves his country is full of prejudices. (Carlo Goldoni, 1707-1793 Italian Playwright)

Prejudice is the child of ignorance. (William Hazlitt, 1778-1830 British Essayist)

Prejudice not being funded on reason cannot be removed by argument. (Samuel Johnson, 1709-1784 British Author)

The tendency of the casual mind is to pick out or stumble upon a sample which supports or defies its prejudices, and then to make it the representative of a whole class. (Walter Lippmann, 1889-1974 American Journalist)

Prejudice is a mist, which in our journey through the world often dims the brightest and obscures the best of all the good and glorious objects that meet us on our way. (Lord Shaftesbury, 1671-1713 British Statesman)

We live in a world where violence has become the currency of the day, where the insanity of hatred overwhelms the spirituality of our existence. We search for meaning, yet all we find is chaos. (Jim Kirwan) - www.educate-yourself.org/cn/fearisrealenemy25mar04.shtml