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- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle.
- Compassion is not a popular virtue. Very often when I talk to religious people, and mention how important it is that compassion is the key,…
- 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…
- I was a lousy nun. I couldn't do it. I couldn't find God. It wasn't suitable for me. It is suitable for very few people.
- And sometimes it's the very otherness of a stranger, someone who doesn't belong to our ethnic or ideological or religious group, an otherness that can…
- It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
- Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
- In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that it…
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- I have a very sharp tongue, I'm very impatient, and it's a lifelong struggle. — Karen Armstrong