Lake Musings

"What is the single thread that runs through all your teaching and pulls it all together?"
- student

"Look into your own heart. Discover what it is that gives you pain. And then refuse to inflict that pain on anybody else."
- Confucius

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"Therefore all things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do ye even so to them: for this is the law and the prophets."
- Matthew 7:12

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"...thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself."
- Leviticus 19:18

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"This is the sum of duty; do naught onto others what you would not have them do unto you."
- Mahabharata 5,1517

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"No one of you is a (true) believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself."
- Sunnah

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"That which is hateful to you, do not do to your neighbor. That is the whole Law; the rest is commentary; go and study it."
- Hillel

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"Rabbi, which is the great commandment in the law?" Jesus said to him, "You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your mind. This is the great and first commandment. And a second is like it, You shall love your neighbor as yourself. On these two commandments depend all the law and the prophets."
- Matthew 22.36-40