Thursday, September 13, 2012

Tricycle Daily Dharma ~ September 13, 2012

Tricycle Daily Dharma September 13, 2012

No Quick Answers

Religion should not be giving you explanations or quick answers, which is what we kind of expect—we type something into Google and up comes the answer. Instead, religion should help you to live with questions for which there are no answers, like cruelty and pain and suffering and death, capitalism and injustice. It should teach us to live with these questions so that whatever horror or sorrow or dukkha is going on out there, you can live with it creatively, not turn your back to it.
- Karen Armstrong, "Compassion Restored"

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