"Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which……" — Merlin Stone

"Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults."

— Merlin Stone

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It is the mark of an educated mind to be able to entertain a thought without accepting it. — Aristotle
Accept the things to which fate binds you, and love the people with whom fate brings you together, but do… — Marcus Aurelius
Confine yourself to the present. — Marcus Aurelius
He that will not apply new remedies must expect new evils; for time is the greatest innovator. — Francis Bacon
And as I stumbled onto Eastern philosophy and Buddhism, it was the first time I had ever read any sort… — Alan Ball
Nothing is a greater impediment to being on good terms with others than being ill at ease with yourself. — Honore de Balzac
The antiquity and general acceptance of an opinion is not assurance of its truth. — Pierre Bayle
Gratitude unlocks the fullness of life. It turns what we have into enough, and more. It turns denial into acceptance,… — Melody Beattie
To make oneself an object, to make oneself passive, is a very different thing from being a passive object. — Simone de Beauvoir
It's not only the most difficult thing to know one's self, but the most inconvenient. — Josh Billings
I've probably understood men too well. I realise they are predatory by nature, and I have a certain acceptance of… — Jacqueline Bisset
It is on the acceptance or rejection of the theory of the Unity of all in Nature, in its ultimate… — H. P. Blavatsky

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