Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
However painful the process of leaving home, for parents and for children, the really frightening thing for both would be the prospect of the child never leaving home. — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share Image
We have to treat others as part of who we are, rather than as a 'them' with whom we are in constant competition. — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share
Leaving home in a sense involves a kind of second birth in which we give birth to ourselves. — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share
We have to understand ourselves as a part of the narrative of evolution. And evolution never stops. The notion that human evolution at some… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share
While there are practical and sometimes moral reasons for the decomposition of the family, it coincides neither with what most people in society say… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share
...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share
We may wonder at the choice of Israel and Rome as the archetypes of the new nation, in view of the long history of… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share
It's clear all the way through history that practices are primary and beliefs are secondary. — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share
Yet Buddhism is four hundred years older than Christianity, and if it's not a universal religion I don't know what a universal religion is.… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share
We never get to the bottom of ourselves on our own. We discover who we are face to face and side by side with… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share
The academic world is one of the few places where prejudice is supposed to be totally banned, and we're politically correct on everything, but… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share
Human culture, in evolutionary terms, moves from episodic, to mimetic, to mythic, to theoretic - that made all kinds of sense. To some extent,… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share
We're [humans] running great risks of doing things that will not be good for us. The cost can be very high indeed if we… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share
Women have entered the work force . . . partly to express their feelings of self-worth . . . partly because today many families… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share
The family is in flux, and signs of trouble are widespread. Expectations remain high. But realities are disturbing. — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share
"Nothing is ever lost" means that what we are now goes all the way back through natural history. We are biological organisms and not… — Robert Neelly Bellah Copy Share
