Quote by Karen Armstrong
Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss

Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indulgent. But the imagination is also the faculty that has enabled scientists to bring new knowledge to light and to invent technology that has made us immeasurably more effective. – Karen Armstrong

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After I left the convent, for 15 years I was worn out with religion, I wanted nothing whatever to do with it. I felt disgusted with it. If I saw someone reading a religious book on a train, Id think, how awful. – Karen Armstrong

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Religion
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We have domesticated Gods transcendence. We often learn about God at about the same time as we are learning about Santa Claus but our ideas about Santa Claus change, mature and become more nuanced, whereas our ideas of God can remain at a rather infantile level. – Karen Armstrong

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Compassion is a practically acquired knowledge, like dancing. You must do it and practice diligently day by day. – Karen Armstrong

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I never in my wildest imagination dreamed that I would somehow become a sports commentator. – Joe Rogan

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My parents thought it was nice to develop my imagination, but they never seriously thought that anything would ever come of it. They said that I couldnt be an actress because I would be taller than all my leading men, so I thought I would be a writer instead. – Nicole Kidman

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I tried to stir the imagination and enthusiasms of students to take risks, to do what they were most afraid of doing, to widen their horizons of action. – James Broughton

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I write from my imagination, not from what Ive read in books or seen on TV or to make money. I wrote from an idea I was passionate about. – Dirk Benedict

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