Wisdom Quotes from other religions

“None of you truly believes until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself.”
- Hadith (Sahih Bukhari)
“You shall not take vengeance or bear a grudge against your kinsfolk. Love your neighbor as yourself: I am the Lord.” - Torah (Leviticus 19:18)
“This is the sum of duty: do not do to others what would cause pain if done to you.” - Mahabharata, Anusasana Parva 113.8
“Hurt not others in ways that you yourself would find hurtful.” - Udanavarga 5:18
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart, and with all your soul, and with all your strength, and with all your mind; and your neighbor as yourself” - Luke 10:27
“love… precedes desire and desire precedes pleasure, and “love is naturally the first act of the will and appetite.” - St Thomas Aquinas
“As you deem yourself, so deem others. Then you shall become fearless, and be absorbed in the True Lord.” - Guru Granth Sahib, Ang 20
“Lay not on any soul a load that you would not wish to be laid upon you, and desire not for anyone the things you would not desire for yourself.” - Gleanings from the Writings of Bahá’u’lláh, 66:1
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Akhilesh Gupta

Akhil Gupta is the founder and director of Universal Enlightenment Forum, a 501(c)3 corporation. He has been associated with Harvard University since 2015, first as a fellow at Advanced Leadership Initiative and later as an Impact Leader in residence in 2023. Akhil currently serves on The Dean’s Leadership Council at Harvard Divinity School, on the Advisory Board of Harvard’s Human Flourishing Program, and on the Advisory Board of Harvard’s Chan Initiative on Health and Homelessness.
He is the author of two books “Bridges Across Humanity” published in 2023 and “To Flourish is To Love Learn Play” to be published in December 2025.He was inspired to write these books while studying at Harvard University.
Prior to Harvard, he was the founder Chairman of Blackstone India & Senior Managing Director of The Blackstone Group. He also served in senior positions at Reliance Industries Limited and Hindustan Unilever
Akhil has a B.Tech from Indian Institute of Technology and an MBA from Graduate School of Business, Stanford University. He served on the Advisory Council of the Graduate School of Business at Stanford University from 2014 to 2021

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