"What you do makes a difference, and you have to decide what kind of difference you want to make."
"Is it not possible that the chimpanzees are responding to some feeling like awe? A feeling generated by the mystery of water; water that seems alive, always rushing past yet never going, always the same yet ever different. Was it perhaps similar feelings of awe that gave rise to the first animistic religions, the worship of the elements and the mysteries of nature over which there was no control? Only when our prehistoric ancestors developed language would it have been possible to discuss such internal feelings and create a shared religion."
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Source: Reason for Hope: a Spiritual Journey. Book by Jane Goodall, Phillip L. Berman, 2000.
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