When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
...there is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“You could stamp on this natural shoot of compassion, Mencius argued, just as you can cripple or deform your body, but if… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“At their best, all religious, philosophical, and ethical traditions are based on the principle of compassion. I” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“the attempt to become a compassionate human being is a lifelong project.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Western liberal humanism is not something that comes naturally to us: like an appreciation of art or poetry, it has to be… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“included: no religious doctrine or practice can be authentic if it does not lead to practical compassion.” — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way. — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“A personalized God can be a mere idol carved in our own image- a projection of our limited needs, fears, and desires.… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“As we develop our compassionate mind, we should feel an increasing sense of responsibility for the suffering of others and form a… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“compassion” derives from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning “to suffer, undergo, or experience.” So “compassion” means “to endure [something]… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The “principle of charity” and the “science of compassion” are both crucial to any attempt to understand discourse and ideas that initially… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“Compassion has dropped so far out of sight these days that many are confused about what is required. It even inspires overt… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“The new atheists show a disturbing lack of understanding of or concern about the complexity and ambiguity of modern experience, and their… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“As we have seen, so many of the things we once took for granted have proved unreliable that we may have to “forget” old… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
“I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without… — Karen Armstrong Copy Share Image
