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““A myth has been well described as something that in some sense happened once—but that also happens all the time. It is about timeless, universal truth. If””

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If it is written and read with serious attention, a novel, like a myth or any great work of art, can become an initiation…

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A gentleman is not born but crafted. He had to work on himself in the same way as a sculptor shaped a rough stone…

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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…

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I have become convinced, through my studies, that the only way to achieve a safe, just and viable world is to live by the…

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In the past some of the most influential Jewish, Christian and Muslim theologians, such as Maimonides, Aquinas and Ibn Sina, made it clear that…

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The great task of our time is to build a global society, where people can live together in peace

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We want to create, never mind the leaders or the bishops or chief rabbis or imams, or Popes. We want to create a grassroots…

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If we don't manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though…

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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt…

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“As we have seen, so many of the things we once took for granted have proved unreliable that we may have to “forget” old…

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Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our…

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“I discovered that I felt at home and alive in the silence, which compelled me to enter my interior world and around there. Without…

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Some stories, you use up. Others use you up.

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