The Golden Rule

Jessie Willcox Smith 1912

The Golden Rule—"Do unto others as you would have others do unto you", is the basic guide for establishing our attitudes and actions toward others. Every one of the ten world's great living religions embraces its universal truth:

The Golden Rule

In Ten of the World's Great Religions

CHRISTIANITY

"All things whatsoever ye would that men should do to you, do you even so to them."

JUDAISM

"What is hurtful to yourself, do not to your fellow man."

ISLAM

"No one of you is a believer until he loves for his brother what he loves for himself."

BUDDHISM

"In five ways should a clansman minister to his friends and familiars by generosity, courtesy and benevolence, by treating them as he treats himself, and by being as good as his word."

HINDUISM

"Do not to others, which if done to thee, would cause thee pain."

SIKHISM

"As thou deemest thyself so deem others. Then shall thou become a partner in heaven."

CONFUCIANISM

"Do not unto others what you would not they should do into you."

JAINISM

"In happiness and suffering, injury and grief, we should regard all creatures as we regard our own self."

TAOISM

"Regard your neighbor's gain as your own gain and regard your neighbor's loss as your own loss."

ZOROASTRIANISM

"That nature only is good when it shall not do unto another whatever is not good for its own self."

--Adapted from Daily Power for Joyful Living

By Donald Curtis (1963)