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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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I don't see why Christians should censor themselves out of any forum in which our perspectives can be heard. I disagree with…
— Gary Bauer
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As state leaders, I think its important for us to provide our perspectives on issues we face every day - like access…
— Bill Richardson
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As educators, our challenge is to match the needs of our learners to a world that is changing with great rapidity. To…
— Heidi Hayes Jacobs
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Our perspectives on situations act like a lens through which we view the world.
— Debbie Ford
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We are set in our ways, bound by our perspectives and stuck in our thinking.
— Joel Osteen
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Morality is neither rational nor absolute nor natural. World has known many moral systems, each of which advances claims universality; all moral…
— Friedrich Nietzsche
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Ideally, travel broadens our perspectives personally, culturally, and politically. Suddenly, the palette with which we paint the story of our lives has…
— Rick Steves
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Compassion has been advocated by all the great faiths because it has been found to be the safest and surest means of…
— Karen Armstrong
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People tend to compartmentalize themselves into IT people, and movie star people, and scientists, but when we share our perspectives about nature,…
— Nalini Nadkarni
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It is in the practice of giving we learn, grow, and expand our perspectives, which proves that real achievements come out of…
— Senoraroy
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