Brook near Beomeosa Temple (founded 678CE), Busan, South Korea, 2014
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The English Theologian and renown writer on Comparative Religion, Karen Armstrong OBE, FRSL recounts the story of her journey from Religious Sister through academic training to a much broader understanding of God in her best selling autobiography, "The Spiral Staircase - My climb out of Darkness" first published in 2004.
As well as telling her story she also recounts some of her discoveries about religion and about God along the way.
She writes:
“Religion is not about accepting twenty impossible propositions before breakfast,
but about doing things that change you. It is a moral aesthetic, an ethical alchemy. If you behave in a certain way, you will be transformed. The myths and laws of religion are not true because they they conform to some metaphysical, scientific or historical reality but because they are life enhancing. They tell you how human nature functions, but you will not discover their truth unless you apply these myths and doctrines to your own life and put them into practice.”
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