Mary Pipher Quotes

Religions Are Metaphorical Systems That Give Us Bigger Containers In Which To Hold Our Lives. A Spiritual Life Allows Us To Move Beyond The Ego Into Something More Universal. Religious Experience Carries Us Outside Of Clock Time Into Eternal Time. We Open Ourselves Into Something More Complete And Beautiful. This Bigger Vista Is Perhaps The Most Magnificent Aspect Of A Religious Experience.
There Is A Sense In Which Karl Marx Was Correct When He Said That Religion Is The Opiate Of The People. However, He Was Wrong To Scoff At This. Religion Can Give Us Skills For Climbing Up On Onto A Ledge Above Our Suffering And Looking Down At It With A Kind And Open Mind. This Helps Us Calm Down And Connect To All Of The World's Sufferers. Since The Beginning Of Human Time, We Have Yearned For Peace In The Face Of Death, Loss, Anger And Fear. In Fact, It Is Often Trauma That Turns Us Toward The Sacred, And It Is The Sacred That Saves Us.

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