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• ‟ Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.

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• ‟ First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

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• ‟ Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

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• ‟ It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

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• ‟ God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's the same in religion.

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• ‟ No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.

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