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- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger…
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to fester without a…
- Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique…
- Compassion is aptly summed up in the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then…
- The constant reprimands made me hyperconscious of my own performance, and so instead of getting rid of self, I had become embedded in the egoism…
- If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)
- Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy.…
- If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation that…
- there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.
- Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on…
- Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled…
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- Economic growth may one day turn out to be a curse rather than a good, and under no conditions can it either… — Hannah Arendt
- Boxing gave me the opportunities to grow into the person that I am today. — Alexis Arguello
- Republics decline into democracies and democracies degenerate into despotisms. — Aristotle
- The state comes into existence for the sake of life and continues to exist for the sake of good life. — Aristotle
- A sense is what has the power of receiving into itself the sensible forms of things without the matter, in the way… — Aristotle
- I was always interested in French poetry sort of as a sideline to my own work, I was translating contemporary French poets.… — Paul Auster
- To bring anything into your life, imagine that it's already there. — Richard Bach
- It's actually amazing because you go so far into another side of your brain when you're studying something completely different, and I… — Dido Armstrong
- If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life. — Karen Armstrong
- But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives… — Karen Armstrong
- Zionism was originally a rebellion against religious Judaism and the PLO Charter was essentially secularist. But because the conflict was allowed to… — Karen Armstrong
- It's tough to be a 15- or 16-year-old athlete competing around the country. There's tension, there's media. I had no idea what… — Lance Armstrong