When spiritual beliefs are used to build up walls between people, this is a total misunderstanding of the purpose of spirituality. Spirituality should mean coming closer to yourself. When this happens, you become closer to others, too. Spirituality and religion should dismantle discrimination and labels, not shore them up. It should break, not create, barriers between people.
17th Karmapa
from the book The Heart Is Noble: Changing the World from the Inside Out
translated by Ngodup Tsering Burkhar & Damchö Diana Finnegan
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Further quotes from the book The Heart Is Noble:
- Healthy relationships
- There are no fixed starting points
- A noble vision
- Open-minded
- Capacity for Change
- Finding our nobility of heart
- Taking delight in your inner nature
- Difference without Division
- My trust is a gift
- There are no fixed starting points
- Loving Responsibility
- Boxed limitless potential
- Authentic love
- Our life is vast
- Just Love
- We truly have everything we need already
- Disconnected from our own noble heart
- Look what he did
- Interdependent reality
- Who are you