Earth Quote by John Lamb Lash

The symbol of Goddess gives us permission. She teaches us to embrace the holiness of every natural, ordinary, sensual dying moment. Patriarchy may try…

— Sue Monk Kidd

“Be compassionate with people you know and those you don’t. We are all sacred. We are all achingly beautiful. Intuition allows us to recognize…

— Judith Orloff

“Once we are able to combine a feeling of empathy for others with a profound understanding of the suffering they experience, we become able…

— His Holiness the Dalai Lama

Compassion also brings us into the territory of mystery - encouraging us not just to see beauty, but perhaps also to look for the…

— Krista Tippett

Become goddesses of disobedience.

— Naomi Wolf

Empathy during agony is a portion of divinity.

— Neal A. Maxwell

So often our sisters comfort others when their own needs are greater than those being comforted. That quality is like the generosity of Jesus…

— Neal A. Maxwell

It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible Gods and Goddesses. To remember that the dullest, and most uninteresting person…

— Anonymous

“It is a serious thing to live in a society of possible gods and goddesses, to remember that the dullest most uninteresting person you…

— C.S. Lewis

Empathy is the most mysterious transaction that the human soul can have, and it's accessible to all of us, but we have to give…

— Sue Monk Kidd

The moral ambivalence of the great mother goddesses has been conveniently forgotten by those American feminists who have resurrected them. We cannot grasp nature's…

— Camille Paglia

“We need myths that will help us to identify with all our fellow-beings, not simply with those who belong to our ethnic, national or…

— Karen Armstrong