Principles of Humanity, Peace & Justice Educational Posters
for classrooms, home schools, theme decor.

Compassion -

The greatest achievement is selflessness.

The greatest worth is self-mastery.
The greatest quality is seeking to serve others.
The greatest precept is continual awareness.

The greatest medicine is the emptiness of everything.
The greatest action is not conforming with the worlds ways.
The greatest magic is transmuting passions.

The greatest generosity is non-attachment.
The greatest goodness is a peaceful mind.
The greatest patience is humility.

The greatest effort is not concerned with results.
The greates meditation is a mind that lets go.
The greatest wisdom is seeing through appearances.

Atisha Dipankara Shrijnana - Buddhist teacher

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Courage -

"It is from numberless diverse acts of courage and belief that human history is shaped. Each time a man stands up for an ideal, or acts to improve the lot of others, or strikes out against injustice, he sends forth a tiny ripple of hope, and crossing each other form a million different centers of energy and daring, those ripples make a current that can sweep down the mightiest walls of oppression and resistance." Lao-tzu

Ethics -

“• Do no harm to the earth, she is your mother.
• Being is more important than having.
• Never promote yourself at another's expense.
• Hold life sacred, treat it with reverence.
• Allow each person the dignity of his or her labor.
• Open your home to the wayfarer.
• Be ready to receive your deepest dreams, sometimes they are the speech of unblighted conscience.
• Always make restitutions to the ones you have harmed.
• Never think less of yourself than you are.
• Never think that you are more than another.”
Arthur Dobrin

Kindness

“In the midst of global crisis such as pollution, wars and famine, kindness may too easily be dismissd as a “soft issue” or a luxury to be addresseed after urgent problems are solved. But kindness is the greatest need in all those areas - kindness toward the environment, toward other nations, toward the needs of people who are suffering. Until we reflect basic kindness in everything we do, our political gestures will be fleeting and fragil. Simple kindness may be the most vital key to the riddle of how human beings can live with each other peace, and care properly for this planet we all share.” Bo Lozoff

Peace

“The first peace which is the most important is that which comes from the souls of men when they realize their relationship, their oneness with the universe and all its powers, and when they realize that at the center of the universe dwells Wakan-Tanka and that the center is everywhere, it is within each of us. This is the real peace and the others are but reflections of this. The second peace is that which is made between two individuals, and the third is that which is made between two nations. But above all you should understand that there can never be peace between two nations until there is first known true peace within the soul of man.” Black Elk

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Reflection -

“To see ourselves as others see us can be eye-opening. To see others as sharing a nature with ourselves is the merest decency. But it is from the far more difficult achievement of seeing ourselves amongst others as a local example of the forms human life has locally taken, a case among cases, a world among worlds, that the largeness of the mind, without which objectivity is self-congratulation and tolerance a sham, comes.”
Clifford Geertz (anthropologist)

Tolerance -

"• The best thing you can give to your enemy is forgiveness;
• to an opponent, tolerance;
• to a friend, your heart;
• to your child, a good example;
• to a father, deference;
• to your mother, conduct that will make hee proud of you;
• to yourself, respect;
• to all men, charity."
Francis Maitland Balfour (biologist)

Wisdom -

“The perfection of wisdom and the end of true philosophy is to proportion our wants to our possessions, our ambitions to our capacities, we will then be happy, and a virtuous people.”
Mark Twain