I long for the day when the statement, "Our God is love, our race is human, and our religion is Oneness," is more than the musings of my mind, but is the creed of the heart of the human family.
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The wisdom of a true community often seems miraculous. This wisdom can perhaps be explained in purely secular terms...There are times, however, when this wisdom seems to my religious eye to be more a matter of divine spirit and possible divine intervention. This is one of the reasons why the feeling of joy is such a frequent concomitant of the spirit of community. The members feel that they have been temporarily—at least partially—transported out of the mundane world of ordinary preoccupations. For the moment it is as if heaven and earth had somehow met.