Saturday 2 October 2010

Global spirit

Hope Springs Eternal

An angel’s loving hand directs a rainbow of hope towards a fertile and beautiful earth, and like a bulb in spring life bursts forth – another gem in the vast garden of the universe.

  • The wisdom to perceive the interconnectedness of all life and living.

     
  • The courage not to fear or deny difference; but to respect and strive to understand people of different cultures, and to grow from encounters with them.

  • The compassion to maintain an imaginative empathy that reaches beyond one's immediate surroundings and extends to those suffering in distant places.


These qualities are the essential elements of global citizenship. 

Diversity should not beget conflict in the world, but richness.

Earth is originally a green oasis with no need for national borders; it is the venue for the shared existence of humankind, the embodiment of our common destiny.

Daisaku Ikeda

Imagine there's no countries
Imagine all the people
Living life in peace