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there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.


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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.

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.



Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.

Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.



Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. He went around doing good and being compassionate.



Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.

Each of the world religions has its own particular genius, its own special insight into the nature and requirements of compassion, and has something unique to teach us.



I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.

I like silence; I'm a gregarious loner and without the solitude, I lose my gregariousness.



Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.

Compassion is not an option. It's the key to our survival.



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.

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.



Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.

Religion isn’t about believing things. It's ethical alchemy. It’s about behaving in a way that changes you, that gives you intimations of holiness and sacredness.



I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.

I am not interested in the afterlife. Religion is supposed to be about losing your ego, not preserving it eternally in optimum conditions.



Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.

Surely it's better to love others, however messy and imperfect the involvement, than to allow one's capacity for love to harden.





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It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.

It's a good thing God chose me before I was born, because he surely would not have afterwards.



It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.

It changed my whole outlook. I lost a decade to self-pity, and the next thing I knew I was turning 40.



I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.

I still have a hard time just calling myself a musician. If I'm talking to somebody and they ask me what I do, I say I play music.



I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.

I could only wonder again at the white race's naïveté in always sending forth our worst members as our emissaries.



I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.

I joined the swim team when I was 12, and I was the worst kid in the pool - I was put with a group of 7-year-olds.



I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.

I need to be surrounded by people as passionate and as dedicated as I am.



For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.

For a variety of reasons, I believe, the time is right to resolve many of the long standing and thorny land use, recreation, and wilderness designation issues in Central Idaho.



Who dares to strike today, when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?

Who dares to strike today, when having the security of a permanent job is itself becoming a privilege?



Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.

Writing fiction, especially a long work of fiction, can be a difficult, lonely job; it's like crossing the Atlantic Ocean in a bathtub. There's plenty of opportunity for self-doubt.




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This page presents the quote "there is no ascent to the heights without prior descent into darkness, no new life without some form of death.". Author of this quote is Karen Armstrong. This quote is about death, descent, form, darkness, new life, ascent,.