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

Akhilesh Gupta is the founder of the Universal Enlightenment & Flourishing (UEF) Foundation and a past Fellow of the Harvard Advanced Leadership Initiative. He previously served as senior managing director at The Blackstone Group and held leadership roles at Reliance Industries Limited and Hindustan Unilever.

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