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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 oneness of human beings is the basic ethical thread that holds us together.
— Muhammad Yunus
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At first we feel called by God and attracted by him. We grow in our vocation and get the impression that God…
— Notker Wolf
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While the womanly god demands our veneration, the godlike woman kindles our love; but while we allow ourselves to melt in the…
— Friedrich Schiller
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The race of gods and men is one, and from one mother we both draw our breath. Yet all the difference in…
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So much of what holds us back in life are the long-held resentments stemming from childhood.
— Gabrielle Bernstein
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The bond that attaches us to the life outside ourselves is the same bond that holds us to our own life.
— William Barrett
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God pursues us into whatever dark place we've landed and behind whatever locked door holds us in. He holds our unwashed and…
— Bob Goff
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In a true you-and-I relationship, we are present mindfully, nonintrusively, the way we are present with things in nature.We do not tell…
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On the Way of the Cross, you see, my children, only the first step is painful. Our greatest cross is the fear…
— John Vianney
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The first evil choice or act is linked to the second; and each one to the one that follows, both by the…
— Tryon Edwards
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New York does nothing for those of us who are inclined to love her except implant in our hearts a homesickness that…
— Maeve Brennan
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Regardless of the name a person uses for the Infinite Force that holds us together, it is the source of our miraculous,…
— Ashok Gangadean
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