- Conflict
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.
- Difficult
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- Nov 07, 2020
It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
- Facts
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- Nov 07, 2020
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
- He Or She
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- Nov 07, 2020
Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
- Back
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- Nov 07, 2020
So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.
- Moral
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- Nov 07, 2020
The most powerful moral influence is example.
- Drawing
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
- Faith
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- Nov 07, 2020
The faith I was born into formed me.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020
The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity.
- Defined
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- Nov 07, 2020
God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.
- Great
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.
- Commonly
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- Nov 07, 2020
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.
- Practice
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.
- Granted
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- Nov 07, 2020
I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.
- History
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.
- Future
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion.
- Family
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- Nov 07, 2020
The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive. Of course, not everyone has this experience. I know many of my students are what I have come to think of as wounded Christians or wounded Jews.
- More
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- Nov 07, 2020
The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.
- Fear
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- Nov 07, 2020
I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.
- Morals
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- Nov 07, 2020
The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in its inability to offer values, morals and meanings that are at the center of our lives.
- Light
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- Nov 07, 2020
Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Science is like a flashlight in the hands of people living in a huge balloon. They can illuminate anything in the balloon, but cannot shine it outside the balloon to see where it is floating - or if it is floating at all.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.
- American
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- Nov 07, 2020
In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
I happen to be a Christian. I was brought up and drenched in that. I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.
- Happy Ending
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- Nov 07, 2020
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.
- Need
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- Nov 07, 2020
Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.
- Consciousness
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- Nov 07, 2020