“Philosophers are all caught up in their philosophies. That's their house of cards. Religious leaders are caught up in their religious movements to the point where they forget about freedom. Everybody's got their drama going.” PhilosophyHumanityHouseReligiousForgetLeaderMovementBuddhismDramaCaughtPhilosopherCardsCaught UpReligious LeadersHouse Of Cards Author:Frederick Lenz
“In our 'don't just sit there, do something' culture, when we get sick we are supposed to become characters in a heroic medical narrative that conceals the remorselessness of pathology, the intractable fact of human vulnerability, and the inevitable inadequacies of medicine. To many of the participants in the medical drama, aggressive treatment - even when it fails - represents a quasi-religious quest for immortality and meaning.” HumansCharacterFactsCultureReligiousFailingDramaSickMedicineIllnessMedicalInevitableNarrativeImmortalityVulnerabilityTreatmentAggressiveHeroicQuestsParticipantsInadequacyPathology Author:Suzanne Gordon
“Religion is rarely mentioned in current prime-time dramas or sitcoms that supposedly reflect the way we live now.” WayChristianReligiousDramaCurrentsPrimeSitcomPrime Time Author:Dan Wakefield
“The earliest influence on me was the movies of the thirties when I was growing up. Those were stories. If you look at them now, you see the development of character and the twists of plot; but essentially they told stories. My mother didn't go to the movies because of a religious promise she made early in her life, and I used to go to movies and come home and tell her the plots of those old Warner Brothers/James Cagney movies, the old romantic love stories. Through these movies that had real characters, I absorbed drama, sense of pacing, and plot.” IfsLooksMadeRealCharacterStoriesHomeUsedMotherReligiousGrowing UpGrowingInfluenceBrotherDevelopmentPromiseDramaLove StoryPlotComing HomeRomantic LoveTwistsPacingReal CharacterWarner Brothers Author:Robert Cormier
“The Jewish festival of freedom is the oldest continuously observed religious ritual in the world. Across the centuries, Passover has never lost its power to inspire the imagination of successive generations of Jews with its annually re-enacted drama of slavery and liberation.” WorldLostImaginationReligiousGenerationsCenturyInspireDramaSlaveryJewLiberationRitualFestivalsReligious Rituals Author:Jonathan Sacks
“My visual landscape as a child was the inside of a lot of these old churches. And the Baroque drama of the things was what I was first engaging with artwise. I'm much more attracted to the aesthetic of religious iconography than the actual religious side. The passion and the blood and the violence and the gaudy side of it I find really fascinating.” FirstsChildrenPassionSidesChurchReligiousViolenceBloodDramaLandscapeVisualsFascinatingAestheticEngagingBaroqueGaudyIconographyOld Churches Author:Florence Welch
“A doctor is not a religious man. You should never give people vague hope or possibility.” PeopleMenGivingShouldReligiousPossibilityDramaDoctorsVague Author:Kim Du-han
“There is no inherent awakening power in cultural forms that have become dissociated from the wisdom and practicality that gave birth to them. They turn into illusions themselves and become part of the drama of religious culture. Although they can make us happy temporarily, they can't free us from suffering, so at some point, they become a source of disappointment and discouragement. Eventually, these forms may inspire nothing more than resistance to their authority.” MayFormSufferingTurnsCultureReligiousInspireSourceBirthDramaAuthorityIllusionDisappointmentAwakeningResistanceInherentDiscouragementPracticality Author:Dzogchen Ponlop Rinpoche