Kinship with all creatures of the earth, sky, and water was for us a real and active principle… The animals had rights – the right of man’s protection, the right to live, the right to multiply, the right to freedom, and the right to human indebtedness.~ Chief Luther Standing Bear.
If everything is connected to everything else, then everyone is ultimately responsible for everything. … We find ourselves within a luminous organism of sacred responsibility. ~Laurence Kushner.
I feel kinship with everyone in the world and feel that I cannot be happy without the humblest of us being happy. ~Mohandas Gandhi.
True compassion does not come from wanting to help out those less fortunate than ourselves but from realizing our kinship with all beings.~ Pema Chodron
Simplicity means to feel such a sense of kinship with others that we choose to live simply so that others may simply live.~Duane Elgin
Some claim evolution is just a theory. As if it were merely an opinion. The theory of evolution, like the theory of gravity, is a scientific fact. Evolution really happened. Accepting our kinship with all life on Earth is not only solid science. In my view, it’s also a soaring spiritual experience.
Serve others for they are reflections of the same Entity of which you are yourself another reflection. No one of you has any authenticity, except in reference to the Original. Feel always kinship with all creation.~Sathya Sai Baba
Wonderful how completely everything in wild nature fits into us …
The sun shines not on us, but in us.
The rivers flow not past, but through us. ~John Muir