It was a religious experience to pick up a gun. I'd never understood the attraction before. But when you're shooting, it's almost… — Alison Pill Copy Share Image
The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“Whereas cognitive constraints on negative emotions can reduce distress, freeing positive emotions from such constraints can enhance religious experience.” — Gerald L. Clore Copy Share Image
“From being the object of a religious experience and sanctified, poverty became the object of a moral conception that condemned” — Michel Foucault Copy Share Image
“Wine is a new drink,” Dionysus explained. “But it’s more than just a drink. It’s a religious experience!” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
“Religious beliefs are sometimes based not on testimony by others but on religious experiences of the believer.” — Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Copy Share Image
Jiro Ono serves Edo-style traditional sushi, the same 20 or 30 pieces he's been making his whole life, and he's still unsatisfied… — Anthony Bourdain Copy Share Image
If the religious experience were simply some naive impression of the uninformed it would not have resulted in such intellectual insight, such… — Thomas Berry Copy Share Image
Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious… — William O. Douglas Copy Share Image
The Notion Of A Contemporary Epiphany To Me Is Very Exciting, Because It's A Sort Of Biblical Thing. It's Something That Has… — Pamela Stephenson Copy Share Image
Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I think on-stage nudity is disgusting, shameful and damaging to all things American. But if I were 22 with a great body,… — Shelley Winters Copy Share Image
I love being immersed in nature, going to places in the world that are pristine and untouched by man. It's almost a… — Leonardo DiCaprio Copy Share Image
“We must judge the tree by its fruit. The best fruits of the religious experience are the best things history has to… — William James Copy Share Image
“Druidry is a way of life, a Spiritual Path, a philosophy; it engenders religious experience, though whether one could call it a… — Sophie Cornish Copy Share Image
“Of course, to speak of the dark night of the soul is anathema to many in the psychiatric field. I was told… — Kathryn Greene-McCreight Copy Share Image
“Why grace? Because some days, it's the only thing we have in common. Because it's the one thing I'm certain is real.… — Cathleen Falsani Copy Share Image
Spirituality is an inner fire, a mystical sustenance that feeds our souls. The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred… — Marianne Williamson Copy Share Image
“how irrelevant the belief in God can be to religious experience—so irrelevant that the emotional structure of religious experiences can be transplanted… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing… — Robert Musil Copy Share Image
Over the years since I became a Christian, I have always deliberately explained that I have 'accepted Jesus Christ.' These words are… — Charles Colson Copy Share Image
Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear… — Ray Bradbury Copy Share Image
“It is a great adventure to contemplate the universe, beyond man, to contemplate what it would be like without man, as it… — Richard P. Feynman Copy Share Image
“there is found a third level of religious experience, even if it is seldom found in a pure form. I will call… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“You felt, in spite of all bureaucracy and inefficiency and party strife something that was like the feeling you expected to have… — Ernest Hemingway Copy Share Image
“You know that feeling of invincibility you sometimes get, especially when young and testing yourself - well that could be because actually… — Jay Woodman Copy Share Image
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude. — William James Copy Share Image
Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
I think of myself as a highly spiritual person, but without - I was never really given a religion or a religious… — James Taylor Copy Share Image
The first religious experience that I can remember is getting under the nursery table to pray that the dancing mistress might be… — Gwen Raverat Copy Share Image
Synchronistic events provide an immediate religious experience as a direct encounter with the compensatory patterning of events in nature as a whole,… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
Direct religious experience is threatening to organized religion, which often mediates it with a rabbi or priest. — Rodger Kamenetz Copy Share Image
Religious experiences are real and common, whether or not God exists, and these experiences often make people whole and at peace. — Jonathan Haidt Copy Share Image
“A person must be in the religious search not for the sake of religious experiences, which can deceive, but for the sake… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I love theater. I think theater, when its done right, is the best, like a religious experience. When it is done badly,… — John Leguizamo Copy Share Image
I once said coaching a first-year team was a religious experience. You do a lot of praying - but most of the… — Bill Fitch Copy Share Image
