- Hang
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- Nov 07, 2020
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- Culture
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think there's a lot of anesthesia being - that's been pumped into American culture, the mass media television, various forms of entertainment, and the illusion of wealth that we now understand to be an illusion as well as the illusion that America is a world power.
- Happy
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the pursuit of happiness is the pursuit of reality because illusion never leaves us ultimately happy.
- Opportunities
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- Nov 07, 2020
There are a million 'oughts' in the world. There's a million ways in which I ought to be serving the world. But the ways I'm gifted to serve and the opportunities that come to me to serve are not a million.
- Political
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- Nov 07, 2020
Proposing inner-life solutions to our political and economic catastrophes is something done, say the critics, only by people who've spent more time in la-la land than in the 'real world.'
- Make
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- Nov 07, 2020
What passes for political realism may make for lively academic debates. But it often functions, ironically, as a tool of social control, rendering us passive with an analysis that overwhelms and paralyzes us.
- Decision
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- Nov 07, 2020
Movements begin when oppressed people make - and keep remaking - a deeply inward decision to stop consenting to external demands that contradict a critical inner truth, the truth that they are worthy of respect.
- Critics
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- Nov 07, 2020
Fascist movements kill off their critics, literally or metaphorically, while democratic movements value, invite and even welcome criticism.
- Church
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- Nov 07, 2020
Whatever America's founders believed about Christianity - and they believed a wide range of things - they clearly rejected the idea of an established church.
- God
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- Nov 07, 2020
As a Christian, I'm passionately opposed to American pretensions that we have special standing with God; to political office-seekers who play on our religious differences; and to the religious arrogance that says, 'Our truth is the only truth.'
- Freedom
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- Nov 07, 2020
America's freedom of religion, and freedom from religion, offers every wisdom tradition an opportunity to address our soul-deep needs: Christianity, Judaism, Islam, Buddhism, Hinduism, secular humanism, agnosticism and atheism among others.
- My Life
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- Nov 07, 2020
Inner-life questions are the kind everyone asks, with or without benefit of God-talk: 'Does my life have meaning and purpose?' 'Do I have gifts that the world wants and needs?' 'Whom and what shall I serve?' 'Whom and what can I trust?' 'How can I rise above my fears?'
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
When I was depressed, nobody expected anything of me, nor did I expect anything of myself. I was exempt from life's demands and risks. But if I were to find new life, who knows what daunting tasks I might be required to take on?
- Die
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- Nov 07, 2020
Every religious tradition is rooted in mysteries I don't pretend to understand, including claims about what happens after we die. But this I know for sure: as long as we're alive, choosing resurrection is always worth the risk.
- Good
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- Nov 07, 2020