“Human development, not secularization, is what's key to women's empowerment in the transforming Middle East.” Quote by Dalia Mogahed
“It's a basic fact about being human that sometimes the self seems to just melt away.” HumansSoulSelfSometimesGodFactsSeemsSpiritualityBeing Human Author:Jonathan Haidt
“[The Persian Empire] left a dream of the Middle East as a unit, and a unit where people of different faiths could live together.” PeopleDifferentSoulGodDreamTogetherSpiritualityLeftMiddleEastEmpiresMiddle EastUnitsPersianDifferent Faiths Author:Neil MacGregor
“It's as though either you accept [religious] doctrine and then you can have all the nice stuff, or you reject the doctrine and you're living in some kind of spiritual wasteland under the guidance of CNN and Walmart.” KindSoulGodSpiritualSpiritualityStuffReligiousAcceptingNiceDoctrineGuidanceRejectsCnnWastelandWalmart Author:Alain de Botton
“The secular world is full of holes. We have secularized badly.” WorldSoulGodSpiritualityHolesSecular Author:Alain de Botton
“We may not agree with what religions are trying to teach us, but we can admire the institutional way in which they're doing it.” WayTryingMaySoulGodSpiritualityTeachAgreeAdmire Author:Alain de Botton
“Religions are so subtle, so complicated, so intelligent in many ways that they're not fit to be abandoned to the religious alone; they're for all of us.” WaySoulGodSpiritualityReligiousFitIntelligentComplicatedSubtleAbandoned Author:Alain de Botton
“A resignation is a grave act; never performed by a right-minded man without forethought or with reserve.” MenGravesReservesResignationForethought Author:Salmon P. Chase
“The universe is large and we are tiny, without the need for further religious superstructure. One can have so-called spiritual moments without belief in the spirit.” NeedsSoulMomentsGodSpiritualSpiritSpiritualityUniverseBeliefReligiousTiny Author:Alain de Botton
“The bandstand is an incredible space. It is really a sacred space. One of the things that is really sacred about it is that you have no opportunity to think about the future, or the past.” ThinkingSoulGodPastSpiritualityOpportunitySpaceSacredIncrediblesSacred Space Author:Stefon Harris
“What does this compassion entail? ... It means understanding one's connection to the whole of creation: understanding that one is part of that creation, that there is a unity that underlies all that we see, all that we hear, all that we feel.” FeelsMeanDoeSoulWholeGodSpiritualityUnderstandingCompassionCreationConnectionsUnity Author:Jackie Tabick