The Heart of Parenting;
Spiritual Parenting in Everyday Life
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The Golden Rule
Christianity
All things whatsoever ye
would that men should do to you, do ye so to them; for
this is the law and the prophets.
Matthew
7:1
Confucianism
Do not do to others what
you would not like yourself. Then there will be no resentment against you,
either in the family or in the state.
Analects
12:2
Buddhism
Hurt not others in ways
that you yourself would find hurtful.
Udana-Varga 5,1
Hinduism
This is the sum of duty;
do naught onto others what you would not have them do unto you.
Mahabharata
5,1517
Islam
No one of you is a
believer until he desires for his brother that which he desires for himself.
Sunnah
Bahai
Choose thou for thy neighbor that which
thou chooseth for thyself.
Judaism
What is hateful to you,
do not do to your fellowman. This is the entire Law; all the rest is
commentary.
Talmud,
Shabbat 3id
Taoism
Regard your neighbor’s
gain as your gain, and your neighbor’s loss as your own loss.
Tai
Zoroastrianism
That nature alone is good
which refrains from doing another whatsoever is not good for itself.
Dadisten-I-dinik, 94,5
Socrates
Do not do unto others what angers you if
done to you by others.
Traditional African
Proverb
One
going to take a pointed stick to pinch a baby bird should first try it on
himself to feel how it hurts.
“We cannot form our children on our own
concepts; we must take them and love them as God gives them to us.”
- Goethe
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