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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 and made it a thing of beauty.
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Respect only has meaning as respect for those with whom I do not agree.
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The Taliban travesty, a noxious combination of Deobandi rigidity, tribal chauvinism, and the aggression of the traumatized war orphan.
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Any interpretation of scripture that bred hatred or disdain for others was illegitimate,
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In a conservative society, stability and order were far more important than freedom of expression.
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There is always a moment in warfare when the horrifying reality breaks through the glamour.
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Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar.
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There was a growing conviction that religion had to become as rational as modern science.
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Each generation has to create the image of God that works for it.
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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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It's a great event to get outside and enjoy nature. I find it very exciting no matter how many times I see bald eagles.
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Compassion is not feeling sorry for others. It's not soft. It requires an intellectual effort.
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Jefferson the deist was accused of being an atheist and even a Muslim.
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But was the prototype of human existence; it was the original pattern or the archetype on which our life here below had been modeled.
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Geniuses are not always pleasant people.
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It did seem unjust that Jane, who was by far the abler of the two, should sacrifice her career for Mark's.
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included: no religious doctrine or practice can be authentic if it does not lead to practical compassion.
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My ideas about God were formed in childhood and did not keep abreast of my growing knowledge in other disciplines. I
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A person who is impartial, fair, calm, gentle, serene, accepting, and openhearted is indeed a refuge.
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I no longer think that any principle or opinion is worth anything if it makes you unkind or intolerant.
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Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.
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Religion is not a nice thing. It is potentially a very dangerous thing because it involves a heady complex of emotions, desires, yearnings and fears.
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The first person to promulgate the Golden Rule, which was the bedrock of this empathic spirituality, was Confucius 500 years before Christ.
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As the philosopher Walter Benjamin put it: "There is no document of civilization that is not at the same time a document of barbarism."24
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Like art, religion is an imaginative and creative effort to find a meaning and value in human life.
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Compassion is not a popular virtue.
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My study of religion, which I regard in many ways as an art form, is a search for meaning.
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Religions don't own compassion; it is a human virtue.
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I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.
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I remind myself that my pain is not unique. Everybody suffers.
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Oedipus had to abandon his certainty, his clarity, and supposed insight in order to become aware of the dark ambiguity of the human condition.
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Fundamentalists are not friends of democracy. And that includes your fundamentalists in the United States.
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Beethoven's string quartets express pain itself; it is not MY pain.
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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 people.
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The Qur'an was attempting to give women a legal status that most Western women would not enjoy until the nineteenth century. The
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Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.
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[T]he family is a school of compassion because it is here that we learn to live with other people. (68)
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My greatest solace is my study. If I am deprived of my study, I can become lost, unhappy and unhinged.
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All religions are designed to teach us how to live, joyfully, serenely, and kindly, in the midst of suffering.
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There is nothing in Islam that is more violent than Christianity.
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There is a distinction between belief in a set of propositions and a faith which enables us to put our trust in them.
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There is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.
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A mode of knowledge rooted in silence and intuitive insight which gives meaning to life but which cannot be explained in rational terms.
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even the presidents of Harvard and Yale saw the War of Independence as part of God's design for the overthrow of Catholicism.
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Compassion has dropped so far out of sight these days that many are confused about what is required. It even inspires overt hostility.
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Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody.
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It is not difficult to find a religious justification for killing.
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Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.
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At their best, all religious, philosophical, and ethical traditions are based on the principle of compassion. I
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There are some forms of religion that are bad, just as there's bad cooking or bad art or bad sex, you have bad religion too.
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If it is not tempered by compassion, and empathy, reason can lead men and women into a moral void. (95)
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We have a duty to get to know one another, and to cultivate a concern and responsibility for all our neighbors in the global village.
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You entered into a Socratic dialogue in order to change; the object of the exercise was to create a new, more authentic self.
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We are trying to retrain our responses and form mental habits that are kinder, gentler, and less fearful of others.
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If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life.
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There is something wrong with any spirituality that does not inspire selfless concern for others
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Remember that in a threatening environment, the human brain becomes permanently organized for aggression.
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Humiliate your enemy is dangerous.
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I learned a lot from both, initially Jewish and Muslim theologians that had been missing, perhaps from my rather parochial Catholic upbringing.
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We are meaning-seeking creatures.
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Religion starts with the perception that something is wrong.
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Their monstrous forms represent the perverse defiance of normal categories and the confusion of identity associated with social and cosmic disorder.
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The Quran gave women rights of inheritance and divorce centuries before Western women were accorded such status. The
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What do you think Socrates meant when he said, "The unexamined life is not worth living"? Third,
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For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Middle East.
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the attempt to become a compassionate human being is a lifelong project.
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The values of Islam are expressed by Muslims clearly. September 11 changed the world, and put Muslims on the spotlight.
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I believe in holiness and sacredness in other people. It doesn't mean that the clouds part and I see God. That's a juvenile way of thinking about it.
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all who benefit from the inherent violence of the state are implicated in its cruelty.
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if we harm our neighbors, we also inflict damage on ourselves. There
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We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity.
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What mattered was not what you believed but how you behaved. Religion was about doing things that changed you at a profound level.
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You are your best self when you give yourself away.
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We should probably all pause to confront our past from time to time, because it changes its meaning as our circumstances alter.
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The only way to show a true respect for God is to act morally while ignoring God's existence.
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A theology should be like poetry, which takes us to the end of what words and thoughts can do.
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Ironically, the first thing that appealed to me about Islam was its pluralism. The fact that the Koran praises all the great prophets of the past.
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Human beings have always been mythmakers.
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Buddhists talk about nirvana in very much the same terms as monotheists describe God.
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I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.
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Mythology is usually inseparable from ritual.
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Understanding different national, cultural, and religious traditions is no longer a luxury; it is now a necessity and must become a priority. The
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Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.
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We are what we are because of the hard work, insights and achievements of countless others.
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I had failed to make a gift of myself to God.
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Since all premodern state ideology was inseparable from religion, warfare inevitably acquired a sacral element.
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But during the nineteenth century, Europe was reconfigured into clearly defined states ruled by a central government.
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