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I sometimes encountered, in churches and elsewhere—in the presence of a venerable Buddhist monk, in the cantor’s singing at a bar mitzvah, and on mountain hikes—something compelling, powerful, even terrifying that I could not ignore, and I had come to see that, besides belief, Christianity involves practice—and paths toward transformation.

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Elaine Pagels, PhD, is an American religious historian, professor, writer, and speaker whose research centers on early Christianity and Gnosticism. Her book The Gnostic Gospels, published in 1979, examines the diversity and the divisions in the early Christian church, and the way women have been viewed throughout Jewish and Christian history.

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FindCenter Quotes ImageIf the caterpillar thinks about the butterfly it is to become, saying ‘And then I shall have wings and antennae,’ there will never be a butterfly. The caterpillar must accept its own disappearance in its transformation. When the marvelous butterfly takes wing, nothing of the caterpillar remains.

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