Customs form us all, our thoughts, our morals, our most fixed beliefs; are consequences of our place of birth.
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We are all human beings, and our nationality is simply an accident of birth.
In the end, we are all determined by the place and the time in which we were born.
What gets in our way is history and culture and religion and economic conditions. It is part of the hypnosis of our social conditioning.
Respect for ourselves guides our morals, respect for others guides our manners.
Our morality is based on so many factors: of where we were born, who we were born to, what values were instilled in us, what values we chose, the way that our lives have shaped us. That dictates so much of what we assume is our morality, and also the culture, all of these things.
Our heritage and ideals, our code and standards - the things we live by and teach our children - are preserved or diminished by how freely we exchange ideas and feelings.
Everything is arranged so that it be this way, this is what is called culture.
We are all born as empty vessels which can be shaped by moral values.
We are born in the world because we have to learn something through whatever we're born into. Although it might be awful. That's why it's an illusion to think that we really run our lives. We don't.
We have new ways to be born, humane and symbolic ways to die, different ways to be rich... new ways to be human and to discover what we are to each other.
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