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“while men may benefit from ego-dissolving practices, women often benefit more from ego-building practices.”
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
“Religion declined not because it was refuted, but because it became irrelevant, dull, oppressive, insipid. When faith is completely replaced by creed, worship by discipline, love by habit; when the crisis of today is ignored because of the splendor of the past; when faith becomes an heirloom rather than a living fountain; when religion speaks only in the name of authority rather than with the voice of compassion--its message becomes meaningless.”3”
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
“However, what I can say is that something happened when God the female, God the many, and God the abundant, became God the male, God the jealous, God the singular, and God the conqueror.”
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
“There’s grief in realizing that you shouldn’t need to beg to have a close relationship with your parent.”
― Are You Mad at Me?
― Are You Mad at Me?
“Religious fundamentalism may prove to be the greatest threat to the planet’s survival. “If God is dead, then everything is permitted” is an idea famously attributed to Dostoyevsky in The Brothers Karamazov, but the opposite could be more true—as retorted by French psychoanalyst Jacques Lacan, “If there is a God, then everything is permitted!”2 The danger in fundamentalist surety is that when one believes their way is the only way, people will commit acts of violence or moral error, sure that they are doing their God’s work, or sure that their ends justify the means.”
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
― No Nonsense Spirituality: All the Tools No Belief Required
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