James Conlon quotes

James Conlon quotes

last updated: November 28, 2023

“Compassion is the litmus test and culminating touchstone of a spirituality of Earth.”
-- James Conlon

Source : James Conlon (1994). “Earth Story, Sacred Story”, Twenty Third Publications

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“Can you imagine if you really let it in that you are not a problem to be solved in any way? Imagine you knew that anything that would tell you otherwise is just a movement of thought in the mind that says "Whatever is, isn't the way it is supposed to be." So the biggest act of compassion starts within. And when the self is no longer seen as a problem, this is called "the peace that passes all understanding."”
“Just as the grammarian makes one study grammar, A Buddha teaches according to the tolerance of his students; Some he urges to refrain from sins, others to do good, Some to rely on dualism, other on non-dualism; And to some he teaches the profound, The terrifying, the practice of enlightenment, Whose essence is emptiness that is compassion”
“O my people, I disavow all that you associate [with God]. I orient my face with an exclusive orientation towards Him, who created the heavens and the earth and I am not one of the associators.”
“I'm just a down-to-earth guy.”
“IQ in general has improved since tests first began. Psychologists think that this is because modern life becomes ever more complicated.”
“This human struggle and scramble for office, for a way to live without work, will finally test the strength of our institutions.”
“Do not rely completely on any other human being, however dear. We meet all life's greatest tests alone.”
“I sometimes wonder if the manufacturers of foolproof items keep a fool or two on their payroll to test things.”
“Then there was the challenge to keep doing better and better, to fly the best test flight that anybody had ever flown. That led to my being recognized as one of the more experienced test pilots, and that led to the astronaut business.”
“Psychiatric diagnosis still relies exclusively on fallible subjective judgments rather than objective biological tests.”

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