Karen Armstrong RELIGIOUS THINKER

• “Look into your own heart, discover what it is that gives you pain and then refuse, under any circumstance whatsoever, to inflict that pain on anybody else.
• “If we don’t manage to implement the Golden Rule globally, so that we treat all peoples, wherever and whoever they may be, as though they were as important as ourselves, I doubt that we’ll have a viable world to hand on to the next generation.”

YOU LOVE HER ALREADY RIGHT???

I wanna be KNOWN as a religious THINKER xxooxx

Want to love her more?

http://www.ted.com/talks/karen_armstrong_let_s_revive_the_golden_rule.html?quote=555

Oprah introduced me to her last Sunday on Super Soul Sunday. LOVE THEM BOTH! Had  lovey week getting to know more of Karen, and excited to dig deeper into some of her books. Join me? I'd love to talk through the SIMPLENESS and REALNESS of her insights. Look at her face. I LOVE when you can SEE the kindness and LOVE in their eyes and VOICE.

Karen Armstrong FRSL (born 14 November 1944) is a British author and commentator known for her books on comparative religion. A former Roman Catholic religious sister, she went from a conservative to a more liberal and mystical Christian faith. She first rose to prominence in 1993 with her book A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam. Her work focuses on commonalities of the major religions, such as the importance of compassion and theGolden Rule.

Armstrong received the $100,000 TED Prize in February 2008. She used that occasion to call for the creation of a Charter for Compassion, which was unveiled the following year.

Religious thinker Karen Armstrong has written more than 20 books on faith and the major religions, studying what Islam, Judaism and Christianity have in common, and how our faiths shaped world history and drive current events.

A former nun, Armstrong has written two books about this experience: Through the Narrow Gate, about her seven years in the convent, and The Spiral Staircase, about her subsequent spiritual awakening, when she developed her iconoclastic take on the major monotheistic religions -- and on the strains of fundamentalism common to all. She is a powerful voice for ecumenical understanding.