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Earth Citizen: Recovering Our Humanity QUOTES

Earth Citizen: Recovering Our Humanity QUOTES

1 " Let us give future generations the gift of Earth citizenship by first giving it to ourselves. "

― Ilchi Lee , Earth Citizen: Recovering Our Humanity

2 " Boundaries, rulers, and names of nations can change, but the Earth is always our home and our source of life. Earth is the only indelible identity we can have. This is why I am suggesting that we expand our identities beyond the limits of nationality and culture to encompass the only identity that is definite and real by identifying ourselves, first and foremost, as Earth Citizens. "

― Ilchi Lee , Earth Citizen: Recovering Our Humanity

3 " Human beings need to acknowledge that their greatest allegiance should belong not to a human-designed government but to the power on which their very existence depends. People must identify themselves as Earth Citizens before any other designation of identity. Through this simple, painless shift in thinking about ourselves and one another, I believe we can make great changes in the world and its destiny. I am a person who is not satisfied when I hear people resign themselves to the current human condition, chalking it all up to the inevitabilities of "human nature." I think that all of life, including humankind is either growing and thriving, or declining and dying. To say "Poverty will always exist" or "War is just part of human existence" is to accept and contribute to the decline of humanity. Life is meant to push onward and upward, always evolving to a higher, more well-adapted form. So, too, humanity must evolve upward. To stagnant, to stay stuck in the quagmire of our current habits and beliefs, is to succumb to our own inertia. "

― Ilchi Lee , Earth Citizen: Recovering Our Humanity

4 " And most importantly, the next time someone asks you "Who are you?" you must answer in this simple way, with sincerity and conviction: "I am an Earth Citizen "

― Ilchi Lee , Earth Citizen: Recovering Our Humanity

5 " Our quality of life, and perhaps even our survival, depends on how we choose to manage ourselves in relation to the technologies we create. "

― Ilchi Lee , Earth Citizen: Recovering Our Humanity

6 " Enlightenment is true love "

― Ilchi Lee , Earth Citizen: Recovering Our Humanity