“What the activity of this disposition of ours means in the evolution of the world, we do not know. Nor can we regulate this activity from outside; we must leave entirely to each individual its shaping and its extension. From every point of view, then, world- and life-affirmation and ethics are non-rational, and we must have the courage to admit it.”
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A medical missionary is a healthcare professional who combines medical expertise with humanitarian service. They work in underserved or crisis-affected regions, providing essential medical care, health education, and compassionate support to improve community well-being and alleviate suffering.
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“The future of civilization depends on our overcoming the meaninglessness and hopelessness which characterize the thoughts and convictions of men today, and reaching a state of fresh hope and fresh determination.”
“Kindness works simply and perseveringly; it produces no strained relations which prejudice its working; strained relations which already exist it relaxes. Mistrust and misunderstanding it puts to flight, and it strengthens itself by calling forth answering kindness. Hence it is the furthest reaching and the most effective of all forces.”
“The thinking man must oppose all cruelties no matter how deeply rooted in tradition or surrounded by a halo.”
“We cannot possibly let ourselves get frozen into regarding everyone we do not know as an absolute stranger.”
“It is a man's sympathy with all creatures that first makes him truly a man.”
“In resigning ourselves to our fate without a struggle, we are guilty of inhumanity.”
“Once a man recognizes himself as a being surrounded by other beings in this world and begins to respect his life and take it to the highest value, he becomes a thinking being. Then he values other lives and experiences them as part of his own life. With that, his goal is to help everyone take their life to the highest value; anything which limits or destroys a life is evil. That is morality. That is how men are related to the world around them.”
“Not less strong than the will to truth must be the will to sincerity. Only an age, which can show the courage of sincerity, can possess truth, which works as a spiritual force within it.”
“I look back upon my youth and realize how so many people gave me help, understanding, courage - very important things to me - and they never knew it. They entered into my life and became powers within me.”