Let's use our stories to encourage listening to one another and to hear not just the good news, but also the pain that lies at the back of a lot of people's stories and histories.

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• Karen Armstrong:

  Human beings have always been mythmakers.

• Karen Armstrong:

  But human beings fall easily into despair, and from the very beginning we invented stories that ena

• Karen Armstrong:

  Today mythical thinking has fallen into disrepute; we often dismiss it as irrational and self-indul

• Karen Armstrong:

  Mythology and science both extend the scope of human beings. Like science and technology, mythology

• Karen Armstrong:

  For centuries, the Muslims were able to co-exist perfectly well with Jews and Christians in the Mid

• Karen Armstrong:

  Compassion doesn't, of course, mean feeling sorry for people, or pity, which is how the word has be

• Karen Armstrong:

  Ever since the Crusades, when Christians from western Europe were fighting holy wars against Muslim

• Karen Armstrong:

  The hajj is one of the five essential practices of Islam; when they make the pilgrimage to Mecca, M

• Karen Armstrong:

  In the holy city of Mecca, violence of any kind was forbidden. From the moment they left home, pilg

• Karen Armstrong:

  Alas, all traditions lose their primal purity and we all fail our founders.