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What does it mean?
Religious ideal of humility might seem boring compared to earthly passion.
In plain terms
Passive heaven is boring.
What can you take from it?
Spirit needs vitality.

Where it applies

  • religious discussion
  • spiritual practice

Putting it to work

  • sermon critique
  • spiritual exploration

Questions to consider

  • What is a dull heaven?
  • Does piety kill joy?

Another view

Peace offers value too.

More from Emma Goldman

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  2. How long would authority and private property exist, if not for the willingness of the mass to become soldiers, policemen, jailers, and hangmen.

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  3. Every daring attempt to make a great change in existing conditions, every lofty vision of new possibilities for the human race, has been labeled Utopian.

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