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When violence becomes imbedded in a region, then this affects everything. It affects your dreams, your fantasies and relationships, and your religion becomes violent, too.

~Karen Armstrong

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Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has become emasculated in a way.

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In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilgrims were not permitted to carry weapons, to swat an insect or speak an angry word, a discipline that introduced them to a new way of living.

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

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Biography

Nationality: English

Type: Writer

Born: November 14th, 1944

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