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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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