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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted…

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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…
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from strength to…
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus;…
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great…
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying…
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied…
All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day.
I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology, as we shall see, is not about…
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

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Never feel self-pity, the most destructive emotion there is. How awful to caught up in the terrible squirrel cage of self. — Millicent Fenwick
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You don't want to buy a surprise, because then the surprise is how awful it looks on you. — Nan Kempner
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