"Rather than being any longer a threat to the established androcratic order, Christianity became what practically all this earth's religions, launched in the name of spiritual enlightenment and freedom, have also become: a powerful way of perpetuating that order."

-- Riane Eisler

#Spiritual Quotes #Powerful Quotes #Women Quotes

“History teaches that grave threats to liberty often come in times of urgency, when constitutional rights seem too extravagant to endure.”

Source : "Neither Liberty, Nor Safety" by Virginia Postrel, reason.com. June 1989.
“It is trust, more than money, that makes the world go round.”

Source : "In No One We Trust". opinionator.blogs.nytimes.com. December 21, 2013.
“For some reason, people think I am this terrible person and it really hurts me to hear that. I am just doing the best I know how to.”

Source : "Biography / Personal Quotes". www.imdb.com.
“It is important to act as if bearing witness matters.”

Source : Maxine Kumin (2000). “Always Beginning: Essays on a Life in Poetry”
“In the centre of a spacious table rose a pastry as large as a church, flanked on the north by a quarter of cold veal, on the south by an enormous ham, on the east by a monumental pile of butter, and on the west by an enormous dish of artichokes, with a hot sauce.”
“Practice is a shared history of learning. Practice is conversational. 'Communities of Practice' are groups of people who share a concern (domain) or a passion for something they do and learn how to do it better (practice) as they interact regularly (community).”
“Take care that you hold not your priceless life so cheap as gold.”

Source : Mikhail Naimy (2011). “The Book of Mirdad: The strange story of a monastery which was once called The Ark”, p.57, Duncan Baird Publishers
“The road can get rocky, but you have to find ways to work through it.”

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