The abolition of the death penalty is making us a civilized society. It shows we actually do mean business when we say we have reverence for life.
Reverence for life is more than solicitude or sensitivity for life. It is a sense of the whole, a capacity for inspired response, a respect for the intricate universe of individual life. It is the supreme awareness of awareness itself.
The stronger the reverence for natural life, the stronger grows also that for spiritual life.
Having pets in the house helps everyone have a reverence for life.
Pursue some path, however narrow and crooked, in which you can walk with love and reverence.
Your soul is that part of you that always strives for harmony, toward cooperation, toward sharing, toward reverence for life and as you choose, in each moment, to align yourself with harmony, or at least not to create more disharmony in the situation you're in, then you are consciously choosing to align yourself with your soul. You are consciously moving toward authentic power.
When one has reverence for life, one will never do anything to harm, hinder, or destroy life. Instead one bends every effort to help life to fulfill its highest destiny. One strives to maintain, enhance, and assist life to make the most of itself.
Ethics is nothing else than reverence for life.
I have a deep reverence for everything that is alive, a reverence for life itself.
Reverence for life, veneratio vitæ, is the most direct and at the same time the profoundest achievement of my will-to-live.
The idea of vegetarianism is of immense value; it is based on great reverence for life.
I can do no other than be reverent before everything that is called life. I can do no other than to have compassion for all that is called life. That is the beginning and the foundation of all ethics.
But if it's true it's beautiful. Truth is beautiful. And so my whole work is about what amounts to a reverence for life itself.
Vegetarianism should not be anything moral or religious. It is a question of aesthetics: one's sensitivity, one's respect, one's reverence for life.
You only become funny when you have a complete reverence for life.
We are capable of regaining our reverence for life, of replacing the drive to conquer with the will to cooperate, of remaking our engineered institutions, including our corporations, into living systems.
What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.
Everything has changed for me since I've changed my name. It's one thing to be called Prince but it's better to actually be one. I have such a reverence for life.
Painful emotions show you what prevents you from creating harmony, cooperation, sharing and reverence for life.
