Yet a personal God can become a grave liability. He can be a mere idol carved in our own image, a projection of our limited needs, fears and desires.….

Compassion is the key in Islam and Buddhism and Judaism and Christianity. They are profoundly similar..

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 end….

God [is] not the exclusive property of any one tradition. The divine light [cannot] be confined to a single lamp, belonging to the East or the West, ….

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

Islam is a religion of success. Unlike Christianity, which has as its main image, in the west at least, a man dying in a devastating, disgraceful, he….

If we want to create a viable, peaceful world, we've got to integrate compassion into the gritty realities of 21st century life..

People knew there were two ways of coming at truth. One was science, or what the Greeks called Logos, reason, logic. And that was essential that the ….

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

Every single one of the major world faiths, whether we're talking about Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Darwinism, Judaism, Christianity and Islam,….

We are addicted to our egotism, our likes and dislikes and prejudices, and depend upon them for our own sense of identity..

When you feel compassion, you dethrone yourself from the centre of the world..

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

If your understanding of the divine made you kinder, more empathetic, and impelled you to express sympathy in concrete acts of loving-kindness, this ….

Myth was regarded as primary; it was concerned with what was thought to be timeless and constant in our existence. Myth looked back to the origins of….

Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spiritua….

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 an….

Jesus did not spend a great deal of time discoursing about the trinity or original sin or the incarnation, which have preoccupied later Christians. H….

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….

Here in America, religious people often prefer to be right rather than compassionate. They've lost the Axial Age vision of concern for everybody..

Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast, but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ….