"When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from……" — Karen Armstrong

"When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world."

105 Quotes by Karen Armstrong

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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…
Mohammed was not an apparent failure. He was a dazzling success, politically as well as spiritually, and Islam went from…
We have domesticated God's transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about…
Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all…
Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a…
Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which…
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…
Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.

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