#m

You have cocktails for 250,000 people when millions upon millions are sick. ↗

— Bruce Davison

#millions #people #sick #upon #you

I have nothing maternal in me, and men want to be mothered a lot of the time. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#lot #maternal #me #men #nothing

In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#any #carry #city #discipline #forbidden

What's worth doing is worth doing for money. ↗

— Stanley Weiser

#money #worth

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

#eagles #enjoy #event #exciting #find

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#common #engaging #fester #human #human life

Religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. Often, they don't want to give up their egotism. They want their religion to endorse their ego, their identity. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#ego #egotism #endorse #give #identity

The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, Muslims ritually act out the central principles of their faith. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#central #essential #faith #five #islam

There is a danger in monotheism, and it's called idolatry. And we know the prophets of Israel were very, very concerned about idolatry, the worship of a human expression of the divine. ↗

— Karen Armstrong

#called #concerned #danger #divine #expression

So of course time is necessary. But nevertheless damn painful, for it transforms all the pieces of your life - joy and sorrow, youth and age, love and hate, terror and bliss - from fire into smoke rising up the air and dissipating on a breeze. ↗

— Charles Frazier

#age