widening our circle

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" A human being is part of the whole... We experience ourselves, our

thoughts and feelings as something separate from the rest. A kind of

optical delusion of consciousness. This delusion is a kind of prison

for us, restricting us to our personal desires and to affection for a

few persons nearest to us. Our task must be to free ourselves from the

prison by widening our circle of compassion to embrace all living

creatures and the whole of nature in its beauty... We shall require a

substantially new manner of thinking if mankind is to survive. "

 

- Albert Einstein