In the end I believe the essential spirit that animates those places animates me. If that spirit is God, then I found God.. If that spirit is life, then I found life.. If that spirit is awe, then I found awe. Part of me suspects it's all three.. All I had to do to discover that spirit and the resulting feeling of humility and appreciation was not to look or listen or taste or feel. All I had to do was remember, for what I was looking for I somehow already knew.
Bruce Feiler
Where God Was Born: A Journey by Land to the Roots of Religion
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People can see in him what they want
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It's a story that fails as history, but that's why it succeeds as scripture -- because it's elliptical,.. The story has the ability to be perpetually now.
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I was wading waist deep in the freezing, raw sewage of Jerusalem in some quixotic attempt to discover how King David had captured his capital
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One of the reasons Abraham is an important figure in the world today is because he is not a saint
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The great religions were not born in isolation from one another; they cannot survive in isolation from one another.
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For the vast majority of believers today, Scripture is a route to God but not necessarily the destination.
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But humans disappoint. Adam, in tasting the fruit, indicates that he prefers Eve to God, so God banishes them.
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..I had always believed that I left a bit of me wherever I went. I also believed that I took a bit of every place with me. I never felt that more than with this trip. It was as if the act of touching these places, walking these roads, and asking these questions had added another column to my being. And the only possible explanation I could find for that feeling was that a spirit existed in many of the places I visited, and a spirit existed in me and the two had somehow met in the course of my travels. It's as if the godliness of the land and the godliness of my being had fused.
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