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Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God

Nirvana is something within you. It is not an external reality. No god thunders down from the mountaintop. Just as the great mystics in the Christian, Jewish and Muslim faiths all discovered, God is within the self. God is virtually inseparable from ourselves.

Karen Armstrong
God, Christian, Reality

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

Karen Armstrong
Reality, Compassion, Peaceful
"Karen Armstrong argues for practical compassion". Interview with Heidi Bruce, www.csmonitor.com. April 17, 2012.

Pain is something that's common to human life. When we ignore it, we aren't engaging in the whole reality, and the pain begins to fester.

Karen Armstrong
Pain, Reality, Common
"Practical Compassion: An Interview with Karen Armstrong". Interview with Heidi Bruce, www.yesmagazine.org. April 12, 2012.

Well, logos is science or reason, something that helps us to function practically and effectively in the world, and it must therefore be closely in tune and reflect accurately the realities of the world around us.

Karen Armstrong
Reality, Tunes, World
"Karen Armstrong Builds A 'Case For God'". Interview with Terry Gross, www.npr.org. September 21, 2009.

Whatever conclusions we reach about the reality of God, the history of this idea must tell us something important about the human mind and the nature of our aspiration.

Karen Armstrong
Reality, Ideas, Mind

Eventually, with regret, I left the religious life, and, once freed of the burden of failure and inadequacy, I felt my belief in God slip quietly away. He had never really impinged upon my life, though I had done my best to enable him to do so. Now that I no longer felt so guilty and anxious about him, he became too remote to be a reality.

Karen Armstrong
Religious, Regret, Reality
"A History of God". Book by Karen Armstrong, 1993.

Jewish, Christian, and Muslim theologians have insisted for centuries that God does not exist and that there is 'nothing' out there; in making these assertions, their aim was not to deny the reality of God but to safeguard God's transcendence.

Karen Armstrong
Christian, Reality, Doe
Karen Armstrong (2009). “The Case for God”, p.11, Knopf Canada

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