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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| a93747b | There are no more geniuses, only critics. | Arnold Schoenberg | ||
| 9a70467 | Het hoofdthema [van het verhaal van Kain En Abel] is het gevecht tussen eigenliefde en de liefde voor God. 'Kain' betekende 'bezit'. Kain wilde alles voor zichzelf houden en streefde enkel zijn eigenbelang na. 'Abel' betekende 'degene die alles in verband brengt met God'. Deze kwaliteiten waren in elk individu aanwezig en streden voortdurend om de voorrang. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| e9d609d | Het was absurd, stelde Filo, om het eerste hoofdstuk van Genesis letterlijk op te vatten en te denken dat de wereld in zes dagen was geschapen. Het getal 'zes' was een symbool voor volmaaktheid. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 33e7b27 | Het was niet het opzet van de eerste christenen om zich van het jodendom af te scheiden. De enige Jezus die we echt kennen, de Jezus is die wordt beschreven in het Nieuwe Testament, dat niet als objectief wetenschappelijke geschiedenis bedoeld was. Er zijn geen andere contemporaine bronnen over zijn missie en dood. Zelfs de reden voor zijn kruisiging valt niet met zekerheid vast te stellen. De evangelien wijzen erop dat men dacht dat hij de.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 1665536 | We weten niet wie de evangelien geschreven hebben. Toen ze voor het eerst opdoken circuleerden ze anoniem, en ze werden pas later toegeschreven aan belangrijke figuren uit de jong christelijke kerken. De auteurs waren joodse christenen. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 1f78dac | Humiliate your enemy is dangerous. | enemy love | Karen Armstrong | |
| d16318c | included: no religious doctrine or practice can be authentic if it does not lead to practical compassion. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 0ab0cfa | the sacred reality is not simply transcendent, "out there," but is enshrined in every single human being, who must, therefore, be treated with absolute honor and respect." | Karen Armstrong | ||
| c3e8fb8 | Again, what works well in the spiritual domain can become destructive and even immoral if interpreted literally and practically in the mundane world. It | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 80e2edc | Enmity shapes our consciousness and identity. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 361aa5d | The people we hate haunt us; they inhabit our minds in a negative way as we brood in a deviant form of meditation on their bad qualities. The enemy thus becomes our twin, a shadow self whom we come to resemble. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 0c03047 | the anonymous Chinese author we know as Laozi pointed out that no matter how good his intentions, violence always recoils upon the perpetrator. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| e6249f6 | In fact, the causes of conflict are usually greed, envy, and ambition, but in an effort to sanitize them, these self-serving emotions have often been cloaked in religious rhetoric. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 525bd00 | Everything that goes up must come down: that is a law of life, so to strengthen your enemy by yielding to him would actually hasten his decline. The | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 0ffeeec | The good leader in war is not warlike The good fighter is not impetuous; The best conqueror of the enemy is he who never takes the offensive. The man who gets the most out of men is the one who treats them with humility.3 Tyrants | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 0f2db7c | Disputes that were secular in origin, such as the Arab-Israeli conflict, have been allowed to fester and become "holy," and once they have been sacralized, positions tend to harden and become resistant to pragmatic solutions." | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 06ddebf | true insight does not consist of the acquisition of information but comes from mastering our egotism and greed.5 | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 83c447a | Martin Luther King Jr. believed that the highest point of Jesus's life was the moment when he forgave his executioners, | Karen Armstrong | ||
| a87f281 | By using feminist arguments, for which most had little or no sympathy, as part of their propaganda, the colonialists tainted the cause of feminism in the Muslim world, and helped to distort the faith by introducing an imbalance that had not existed before.83 The | Karen Armstrong | ||
| bbc98f6 | There was a growing conviction that religion had to become as rational as modern science. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| d33caeb | When I see the blind and wretched state of men, when I survey the whole universe in its deadness and man left to himself with no light, as though lost in this corner of the universe without knowing who put him there, what he has to do, what will become of him when he dies, incapable of knowing anything, I am moved to terror, like a man transported in his sleep to some terrifying desert island, who wakes up quite lost with no means of escape.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 82be06c | A double standard, albeit unintended, violates our integrity and damages our credibility. In a global society, conflict is rarely the fault of only one party. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| f8b4a25 | The best lack all conviction, while the worst Are full of passionate intensity.1 | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 2810266 | One of the chief tasks of our time must surely be to build a global community in which all peoples can live together in mutual respect; yet religion, which should be making a major contribution, is seen as part of the problem. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 90937b6 | But Christina never forgot that "when I was a child, I needed only one person to understand my suffering and pain.... One is very important."5" | Karen Armstrong | ||
| e247fac | if it is art, it is not for all, and if it is for all, it is not art. | Arnold Schoenberg | ||
| d700af3 | what Tibetan Buddhists call "the inability to bear the sight of another's sorrow," so that we feel it almost as intensely as we feel our own. We" | Karen Armstrong | ||
| ed912c8 | the moral and spiritual imperatives of religion are important for humanity and should not be relegated unthinkingly to the scrap heap of history in the interests of an unfettered rationalism. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 1dcff97 | Fundamentalist faith was rooted in deep fear and anxiety that could not be assuaged by a purely rational argument. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 8d39d6a | we sometimes fail to recognize the signs of poverty, loneliness, grief, fear, and desolation in our own city, our own village, or our own family. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| fde9299 | Suffering and want are no longer confined to distant, disadvantaged parts of the globe. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 8342f9a | It is also necessary in both public and private life to refrain consistently and empathically from inflicting pain. To act or speak violently out of spite, chauvinism or self-interest, to impoverish, exploit or deny basic rights to anybody, and to incite hatred by denigrating others--even our enemies--is a denial of our common humanity. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 01577f3 | cultivate an informed empathy with the suffering of all human beings--even those regarded as enemies. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 404bdcf | compassion" derives from the Latin patiri and the Greek pathein, meaning "to suffer, undergo, or experience." So "compassion" means "to endure [something] with another person," to put ourselves in somebody else's shoes," | Karen Armstrong | ||
| c5ca2c7 | the Golden Rule, which asks us to look into our own hearts, discover what gives us pain, and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 67292cf | Compassion can be defined, therefore, as an attitude of principled, consistent altruism. The | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 7d2d8cb | in a foreign language. Linguists have called this epistemological law the "principle of charity"; it requires that when we are confronted with discourse that is strange to us, we seek an "interpretation which, in the light of what it knows of the facts, will maximise truth among the sentences of the corpus."11" -- | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 1c6d947 | De vroege christenen geloofden dat het hun voornaamste plicht was om elkaar lief te hebben, maar ze stelden zich niet open voor vreemdelingen. Deze gemeenschap voelde zich aangevallen en klitte samen tegen 'de wereld'. Sommige van hun leden hadden hun leer onverdraaglijk gevonden en 'gingen niet verder met Jezus mee'. De gelovingen zagen deze afvalligen als 'antichristenen', vervuld van een dodelijke haat jegens de messias. De leden van dez.. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 61a577f | it is important to assume that the speaker shares the same human nature as yourself and that, even though your belief systems may differ, you both have the same idea of what constitutes truth. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 00746f6 | Charity," Davidson continues, "is forced on us, whether we like it or not; if we want to understand others, we must count them right in most matters."13" | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 9a93d47 | The "principle of charity" and the "science of compassion" are both crucial to any attempt to understand discourse and ideas that initially seem baffling, distressing, and alien;" | Karen Armstrong | ||
| afce2c9 | Jezus, de Logos, zou de functie van de verwoeste tempel overnemen en de plaats waar de joden de goddelijke aanwezigheid konden ontmoeten[...]. Het jodendom en zijn heiligste symbolen waren vervangen door een triomfantelijk, strijdbaar christendom. Er loopt een spoor van haat door het Nieuwe Testament. Het is niet juist om de christelijke Bijbel te kenschetsen als antisemitisch want de schrijvers waren zelf joden. | Karen Armstrong | ||
| 517918e | You could stamp on this natural shoot of compassion, Mencius argued, just as you can cripple or deform your body, but if you cultivate this altruistic tendency assiduously, it will acquire a dynamic power of its own.23 The | Karen Armstrong | ||
| e3f6cca | people are finding that in their dramatically transformed circumstances, the old forms of faith no longer work for them: they cannot provide the enlightenment and consolation that human beings seem to need. | Karen Armstrong |