NUGGETS OF WISDOM - 193

• ·       "When rights are old beyond knowledge of origin, they are often called natural rights. But human rights are not really natural; they are entirely social. They are relative and ever changing, being no more than the rules of the game."
  ·       "Provision must be made for growth of meanings at differing ages, in successive cultures, and in the passing stages of advancing civilization. The chief inhibitors of growth are prejudice and ignorance."
  ·       “Compassion is an action word with no boundaries.” —Prince Rogers Nelson
  ·       “Everyone is born a genius, but the process of living de-geniuses them.” — Dr. Wayne W. Dyer
  ·       “A kind gesture can reach a wound that only compassion can heal.”—Steve Maraboli
  ·       "[Jesus] was liberal, big-hearted, learned, and tolerant. Self-conscious piety had no place in his philosophy
  of righteous living."
  ·       "You cannot be sure about God unless you know him; sonship is the only experience which makes fatherhood certain."
  ·       “Compassion is the heart that never stops loving others. It is like a wellspring that never runs dry.”—Ryuho Okawa
  ·       "The activation of religion is superemotional, unifying the entire human experience on transcendent levels through contact with, and release of, spiritual energies
  in the mortal life."
  ·       “Compassion is the currency that leads to true wealth.”—Jim Carrey
  ·       "The great thing about the death of Jesus, as it is related to the enrichment of human experience and the enlargement of the way of salvation, is not the fact of his death but rather the superb manner and the matchless spirit in which
  he met death."