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Let me sum up Einsteinian religion in one more quotation from Einstein himself: ‘To sense that behind anything that can be experienced there is a something that our mind cannot grasp and whose beauty and sublimity reaches us only indirectly ...more
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“Sometimes the holiest work is not to pray them into the light, but instead to join them in the dark.”
Sharon Brous, The Amen Effect: Ancient Wisdom to Mend Our Broken Hearts and World

Alice Walker
“But if God love me, Celie, I don’t have to do all that. Unless I want to. There’s a lot of other things I can do that I speck God likes. Like what? I ast. Oh, she say. I can lay back and just admire stuff. Be happy. Have a good time.”
Alice Walker, The Color Purple

Ram Dass
“When someone asked Maharaj-ji how to meditate, he said, “Meditate the way Christ meditated. . . . He lost himself in love.”
Ram Dass, Be Love Now: The Path of the Heart

Irin Carmon
“The decision whether or not to bear a child is central to a woman’s life, to her well-being and dignity,” she said simply. “It is a decision she must make for herself. When government controls that decision for her, she is being treated as less than a fully adult human responsible for her own choices.”
Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

Irin Carmon
“She said, ‘I ask no favor for my sex. All I ask of our brethren is that they take their feet off our necks.”
Irin Carmon, Notorious RBG: The Life and Times of Ruth Bader Ginsburg

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