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When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

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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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Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free.… — Jiddu Krishnamurti
Humanity will never be religious unless all organized religions disappear and religion becomes an individual commitment towards existence. — Rajneesh
One might say that where Religion becomes artificial, it is reserved for Art to save the spirit of religion. — Richard Wagner
But when a man’s religion becomes really frantic; when it is a positive torment to him; and in fine, makes this earth… — Moby
If religion becomes a cause of dislike, hatred and division it were better to be without it... — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡
Religion becomes a hollow shell of its former self when ritual remains and thoughtful reflection disappears. — Nouman Ali Khan
Religion becomes a state of mind achievable in almost any activity of life, if this activity is raised to a suitable level… — Abraham Maslow
When religion becomes artificial, art has a duty to rescue it. Art can show that the symbols which religions would have us… — Richard Wagner
Religion becomes a matter of belief, and belief acts as a limitation on the mind; and the mind then is never free. — Jiddu Krishnamurti
When state and religion are one, religion becomes a means for the powerful to remain in power. — Walter Jon Williams
Once God and grace move us to the second half of life, religion becomes a mystical matter, rather than a moral matter. — Richard Rohr
Religion should unite all hearts and cause wars and disputes to vanish from the face of the earth; it should give birth… — Abdu'l-BahÃ¡

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