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Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their…
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Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to…
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We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;…
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great…
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Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying…
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Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied…
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
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I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about…
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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The world exists only when we think about it; creation stories are for children. In reality the world is created every moment.
— Jean Klein
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Most nations have some type of creation story.
— Unknown Author
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There is no way that you can read the entire Bible seriously and take every word literally. Contradictions start in the first…
— Madeleine L'Engle
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The creation story unfurling within the scientific enterprise provides the fundamental context, the fundamental arena of meaning, for all the peoples of…
— Brian Swimme
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When we live without listening to the timing of things, when we live and work in twenty-four-hour shifts without rest – we…
— Wayne Muller
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Creation stories had never been regarded as historically accurate; their purpose was therapeutic. But once you start reading Genesis as scientifically valid,…
— Karen Armstrong
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Evolution is one of the most powerful and important ideas ever developed in the history of science. Every question it raises leads…
— Bill Nye
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We ought to recognize that religious strife is not the consequence of differences among people. It's about conflicts between creation stories.
— E. O. Wilson
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It's only a story, you say. So it is, and the rest of life with it - creation story, love story, horror,…
— Jeanette Winterson
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Within the mystery of life there is the infinite darkness of the night sky lit by distant orbs of fire, the cobbled…
— Jack Kornfield
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