They amuse themselves by playing an irrelevant ecclesiastical game called "Let's Pretend." Let's pretend that we possess the objective truth of God… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
A great unification is now taking place between science and spirituality. The most advanced discoveries of modern science are rising to reaffirm… — John Hagelin Copy Share Image
In my tradition, one must wait until one has learned a lot of Bible and Talmud and the Prophets to handle mysticism.… — Elie Wiesel Copy Share Image
I would love to live in Japan again, but would need to really commit to learning the language before doing it. Both… — Caroline Polachek Copy Share Image
The ancients had a term in the mystical tradition called the Akashic Records, which was suggestive that nature didn't lose it's experience,… — Edgar Mitchell Copy Share Image
What are you going to do to preserve a tradition that is the peculiar and unique culture that Judaism inculcates? The American… — Arthur Hertzberg Copy Share Image
There is the question of language. Although the play [Candid] is not written in strict verse form, there is an underlying beat… — Mark Ravenhill Copy Share Image
When all the original blues guys are gone, you start to realize that someone has to tend to the tradition. I recognize… — Eric Clapton Copy Share Image
We lack a political culture, a culture of compromise. We in Poland, as well as the Hungarians, have never learned this sort… — Adam Michnik Copy Share Image
We need to employ a secular approach to ethics, secular in the Indian sense of respecting all religious traditions and even the… — Dalai Lama Copy Share Image
The Toltec tradition tells us that we surrender a portion of our life force when we dwell on any unhealed wounding event… — Debbie Ford Copy Share Image
In France, in Europe, the young artists of any generation always act as grandsons of some great man - Poussin, for example,… — Marcel Duchamp Copy Share Image
The integral approach is committed to the full spectrum of consciousness as it manifests in all its extraordinary diversity. This allows the… — Ken Wilber Copy Share Image
The great biblical tradition says that loving God and loving one's neighbor are not two separate actions but two sides of the… — John Shelby Spong Copy Share Image
“Worship, then, needs to be characterized by hospitality; it needs to be inviting. But at the same time, it should be inviting… — James K.A. Smith Copy Share Image
One of the proudest things I see is, now, 25 years after I graduated, when I go to a Syracuse sporting event,… — Mike Tirico Copy Share Image
The more we can do to support and promulgate the intellectual traditions of the Abrahamic faiths - of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam… — Jon Meacham Copy Share Image
The Americans are clever. They thoroughly understand things that have to do with money, war, death, sickness. And there is also a… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam,… — Parker Palmer Copy Share Image
Followers of another political party tell us that we will strengthen ourselves by ignoring our history, our traditions, our mythologies, our culture… — B. W. Powe Copy Share Image
Inside the modern city, in spite of its nominal political unity, there are probably more communities, more differing customs, traditions, aspirations, and… — John Dewey Copy Share Image
It is within the established American tradition of satire, if America surrenders on this point, the freedom of speech is a relic… — Pamela Geller Copy Share Image
There are not many female role models to guide voters, and the tradition that a Southern woman's place is in the home… — Madeleine M. Kunin Copy Share Image
The tradition has always been that in Roman films, the Romans are always British, and it's usually posh British: Laurence Olivier and… — Kevin Macdonald Copy Share Image
My very first lessons in the art of telling stories took place in the kitchen . . . my mother and three… — Paule Marshall Copy Share Image
It's important for me to really play with the traditions and keep things simple and easy. Ultimately I believe in animal instincts… — Peter Dundas Copy Share Image
They recite their sacred books, although the fact informs me that these are a fiction from first to last. O Reason, thou… — Al-Maʿarri Copy Share Image
The only influence that can really upset the injustice and iniquity of men is the power that breathes in the Christian tradition,… — Thomas Merton Copy Share Image
I suggest that what we want to do is not to leave to posterity a great institution, but to leave behind a… — Henry R. Luce Copy Share Image
Like down the little pickiney inna de prom. Dis is one thing me got fi over stand. Most of the youth dem… — Capleton Copy Share Image
While some artists hunt for more groundbreaking ideas, A Hawk and a Hacksaw finds novelty in tradition, proving that what's new depends… — Anthony Fantano Copy Share Image
Once again, in the fine tradition of North Texas Lab Bands, this is truly a superb band. Under the artful leadership of… — Michael Brecker Copy Share Image
The youngest metal kids are less impressed by tradition, so you get metal that encompasses everything. It's not a defining kind of… — Ian Christe Copy Share Image
It's America's classical music ... this becomes our tradition ... the bottom line of any country in the world is what did… — Louis Armstrong Copy Share Image
My father, one of the great entrepreneurs and philanthropists of this state, taught me that capital - monetary or political - is… — Jon Huntsman, Jr Copy Share Image
In Kabbalah, as in the Hassidic tradition, you cure the body, but you fix the soul. Curing takes time, but fixing, if… — Shlomo Carlebach Copy Share Image
The Christian tradition was passed on to me as a great rich mixture, a bouillabaisse of human imagination and wonder brewed from… — Mary Catherine Bateson Copy Share Image
There are some societies where women are not even allowed to drive a car, and that restriction is based in the name… — Asma Jahangir Copy Share Image
When you have a teacher who is part of a tradition, the other people in that tradition are such stars. You just… — Hilary Hahn Copy Share Image
Tradition means giving votes to the most obscure of all classes, our ancestors. It is the democracy of the dead. Tradition refuses… — Gilbert K. Chesterton Copy Share Image
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