Edward Hicks - Peaceable KingdomWishing everyone a wonderful holiday season, which ever holiday you celebrate. One thing we share is respect for life on Earth as these passages, via Sustaining Life, show:
This is the token of the covenant which I make between Me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations . . . and the bow (rainbow) shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.
GENESIS 9:16
There is not an animal on the earth nor a being that flies on its wings, but (forms part of) communities like you.
KORAN (QUR’AN) 6:38
All this world is strung on me like jewels on a string. I am the taste in the waters, the radiance in the sun and moon, the sacred syllable Om that reverberates in space, the manliness in men. I am the pleasant fragrance in earth, the glowing brightness in fire, the life in all beings.
BHAGAVAD GITA VII:7-9
My love to the footless, my love to the two-footed, my love to the four-footed, my love for the many-footed . . . All sentient beings, all breathing things, creatures without exception, let them all see good things, may no evil befall them.
“GRADUAL SAYINGS” OF THE BUDDHA