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Karen Armstrong

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2018-12-26
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  1. “Yes, that is religion. That is religion. And there's a famous story of the great rabbi Hillel who was an older contemporary of Jesus. And a pagan came to him and said that he would convert to Judaism if Hillel could sum up the whole of Jewish teaching, the whole of the Torah while he stood on one leg”

    2018-12-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Karen Armstrong: Steps to a Compassionate Life, Part 2 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  2. “And it's summed up in what's often called the Golden Rule. Never treat others as you would not like to be treated yourself.”

    2018-12-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Karen Armstrong: Steps to a Compassionate Life, Part 2 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  3. “But it is meant to propel us towards others in compassion. The Buddha said, after enlightenment, you go back to the marketplace and there practice compassion for all living beings. You don't just sit congratulating yourself on achieving nirvana. It propels you out in charity and compassion to make the world a better place. Buddhists say you have to take responsibility for the pain of the world. Not say that sounds like somebody else's problem. Their understanding of compassion is that you say, I am now going to do all in my power to assuage the suffering of the world. And our idea of compassion has got so feeble that we think it means feeling sorry for people. Ah, it means... It means to feel with the other com parthen in Greek, compatio in Latin, to feel and endure something with somebody else.”

    2018-12-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Karen Armstrong: Steps to a Compassionate Life, Part 2 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  4. “Is what? To let yourself go, what the religions tell us that you are your best self when you give yourself away. When you give yourself away to other people, religion is meant not just to get us to heaven. I think heaven is a bit of a red herring.”

    2018-12-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Karen Armstrong: Steps to a Compassionate Life, Part 2 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  5. “Yeah, and the point is that if you just get compassion right, it's not about being right religion. It's not about being right. But you get a lovely warm, self-congratulatory glow when you feel right. When”

    2018-12-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Karen Armstrong: Steps to a Compassionate Life, Part 2 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source

  6. “Well, I think the trouble is that people identify too closely with their own beliefs and doctrines. They project themselves into it too much so that when they find that other people do things differently, it seems to challenge themselves. They feel themselves threatened in some way. They feel like the other. Yes, and they other cannot possibly.”

    2018-12-26 · Oprah's Super Soul · Karen Armstrong: Steps to a Compassionate Life, Part 2 · IDENTIFIED FROM THE TRANSCRIPT · source