#Karen Armstrong

[julesofnature]

"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.”  ~ Karen Armstrong

#Karen Armstrong

[siamkram]

Do not praise your own faith so exclusively that you disbelieve all the rest. If you do this you will miss much good. Nay, you will miss the whole truth of the matter. God, the Omniscient and the Omnipresent, cannot be confined to any one creed, for He says in the Quran, wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah. Everybody praises what he knows. His God is his own creature, and in praising it, he praises himself. Which he would not do if he were just, for his dislike is based on ignorance.

Ibn Arabi

#ibn arabi #quotes #religion #karen armstrong #arabic quotes #god #allah #the perennial philosophy #theism #devotional polytheism

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

"Compassion 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

[Follies Of God]

#Follies of God #Karen Armstrong #compassion #quotes

[onderkaracay]

#önderkaraçay #mobbingbank #önder karaçay #mobbing bank #insan #atatürk #devrim #mahşer tufanı #zulüm #türk fırtınası #karen armstrong #köktendincilik #funtamentalizm #laiklik

[dimensional-tourist]

"It is egotism that holds us back from that transcendent experience that has been called God, Nirvana, Brahman, or the Tao." Karen Armstrong

#Karen Armstrong

[religion-is-a-mental-illness]

“This is a brutal, partial and murderous god…he is passionately partisan, has little compassion for anyone but his own favourites and is simply a tribal deity. If Yahweh had remained such a savage god, the sooner he vanished, the better.“

--- Karen Armstrong, ex-nun and author.

#Karen Armstrong #christianity #bible #bible study #murder god #god of murder #tribal deity #blood god #religion #religion is a mental illness

[geminiscene]

a history of god, karen armstrong

#j.txt #karen armstrong #words

[gravity-rainbow]

Plato described the two different ways of approaching truth as mythos and logos. Mythos is a more silent, intuitive way of looking at reality and logos is more of a scientific, discursive, logical way, and we need both. Karen Armstrong

#karen armstrong #plato #mythos #logos

[wellconstructedsentences]

But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that enabled us to place our lives in a larger setting, that revealed an underlying pattern, and gave us a sense that, against all the depressing and chaotic evidence to the contrary, life had meaning and value.

A Short History of Myth by Karen Armstrong

#a short history of myth #karen armstrong

[eretzyisrael]

How does propaganda work? Sometimes, it consists of Big Brazen Lies, no apology, no context, no facts—it is all narrative-driven and has a malevolent purpose. More often, it is a steady, low-key diet of info-bits that are meant to normalize the larger lies. The New York Times does this brilliantly.

For example, in the Times’ September 11th Book Review, Karen Armstrong, who has been the go-to person on Saudi Arabia, is featured. An ex-nun, she cites a 14th century “mystical text by an English monk and a “great Muslim scholar and mystic, Ibn Al-Arabi (1165-1240)” who “sadly, is little known in the West.” She often quotes from him. Armstrong is emphasizing that people who are ignorant of other faiths will not understand that God cannot be “confined to one creed”—and to prove it, she quotes Al-Arabi who wrote: “Wheresoever ye turn, there is the face of Allah” (Quran 2:115). Her audiences in Pakistan are always “relieved to hear it.” Al-Arabi wrote “Allah” not “God,” but I quibble.

When Armstrong is asked “If she was organizing a literary dinner party, which three writers, dead or alive, do you invite? She answers: “My guests would be Confucius, Jesus, Buddha, and Muhammed because I would like them to tell me…what they had in common and what was most needed in our world today.”

Hmm…but there is no Moses, no Jewish ethics or laws, no desire to invite Moses for dinner.

Such a small thing, and something said by an interviewee, not by the interviewer—and yet, so many small things eventually add up to the disappearance of Judaism and Israel on the map of memory.

#propaganda #new york times #karen armstrong #food

[olivettheory]

The Benefits Of A Race Conscious Society

The Benefits Of A Race Conscious Society

WordPress Facebook Twitter Instagram Goodreads Medium Tumblr Can You See Us Now? There is a continual temptation in the heart of man to live within a racialized society as if it were race-neutral, or at least race-less. The truth is that we live in a racialized world, one where we see color, see color as race, and that awareness has conscious and subconscious implications on how we treat…

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#America #American #American History #Black Americans #Black Lives Matter #Blog #Blogger #Blogging #Church #Civil Rights #Clint Smith #Color #Color-Blind #Culture #Integration #Karen Armstrong #Mental Health #Olivet Theory #Race #Racism #Reading #Religion #Slavery #Thoughts #WEOC #Writers and Editors of Color #Writing

[dreaminginthedeepsouth]

Image: William Blake, 'Christ in the Sepulchre, Guarded by Angels'

"The exercise of compassion is what matters in our world—dethroning yourself from the center of your world and putting another there. Now this requires intelligent thought. You really have to think and practice the golden rule about what the other person really wants instead of what you think he ought to want. When we speak to people we should behave as Buddha or as Socrates did. Address them where they really are and not where we think they should be. We have to put ourselves in the place of another, and we have to be able to do this globally."

~Karen Armstrong, ('To Go Beyond Thought' in 'Parabola')

[Ian Sanders]

#Ian Sanders #Karen Armstrong #Parabola magazine #quotes #William Blake #Christ in the Sepulchre #Guarded by Angels #angels

[iskra8]

The Wisdom of Karen Armstrong

#quotes #karen armstrong

[galfian90]

Spiritualitas Sekuler ala Karen Armstrong

Menerobos Kegelapan adalah sebuah buku autobiografis yang ditulis oleh Karen Armstrong, penulis bestseller Sejarah Tuhan. Buku yang diterbitkan oleh Mizan pertama kali pada tahun 2004 tersebut merupakan terjemahan dari versi dalam bahasa Inggris yang berjudul The Spiral Staircase: My Climb Out of Darkness terbitan Alfred A. Knopf, New York. Buku tersebut menceritakan pengalaman pribadi Karen…

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#agama #karen armstrong #sekularisme #spiritualitas

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202312-01_27

#karen armstrong

[iamadarshbadri]

Book Review: “Islam: A Short History” by Karen Armstrong

In her book Islam: A Short History, Karen Armstrong seeks to untangle the tumultuous history of Islam through time. It accounts for all the historical development of Islam, documenting the rise, development, and challenges posed by its growth. In doing so, it seeks to dispel the misconceptions about Islam and Muslims prevailing in our times. As a keen observer of religious history, Armstrong’s…

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#a short of islam #book review islam and armstrong #book review of karen armstrong&039;s islam #islam #islam a short history by karen armstrong #islam by karen armstrong #karen armstrong