“To consent to paradox is to consent to suffering that which is greater than the ego. The religious experience lies exactly at… — Robert A. Johnson Copy Share Image
“Individuals are now “spiritual consumers” who will go to a church only if (and as long as) its worship and public speaking… — Timothy J. Keller Copy Share Image
Everybody wants a movie career. I found that pretty elusive. I did make a movie with Martin Sheen about a nuclear scientist… — Tim Pigott-Smith Copy Share Image
“There is no better point of entry to the religious experience than the Sabbath, for all its apparent ordinariness. Because of its… — Judith Shulevitz Copy Share Image
Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some… — Will Barnet Copy Share Image
“...[A] strange necessity has been laid upon me to devote my life to the central concern that transcends the walls that divide… — Howard Thurman Copy Share Image
My greatest experiences in the theatre and the most religious experiences in my life - of which going to the opera is… — Rufus Wainwright Copy Share Image
I know many people who believe in a god, and I expected to find him on my way to the South Pole… — Liv Arnesen Copy Share Image
“We define Christian spiritual direction then, as help given by one Christian to another which enables the person to pay attention to… — Jeannette A. Bakke Copy Share Image
The unconscious is the only available source of religious experience. This in certainly not to say that what we call the unconscious… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
“To sum it up, from this point of view, the two religions of mankind tend to be the peakers and the non-peakers,… — Abraham H. Maslow Copy Share Image
“You might as well get one thing straight. I'm not an abstractionist... I'm not interested in the relationships of color or form… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
“Having been exposed to a variety of religious experiences in the foster homes I lived in, being Protestant, Catholic, Jewish, or anything… — Wayne W. Dyer Copy Share Image
“The normal process of life contains moments as bad as any of those which insane melancholy is filled with, moments in which… — Thomas Ligotti Copy Share Image
“There are, then, three sorts of religious experiences. The ancient rites, which are essentially propitiatory. The mysteries, which purge the soul and… — Gore Vidal Copy Share Image
You have to be closer to religious origins -- the generation of the 20's was truly secular in that it still knew… — Ann Douglas Copy Share Image
I live and die with the Indians. The first game I attended back in the mid-'90s was almost a religious experience. We… — Mary Doria Russell Copy Share Image
“Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in… — Luke Timothy Johnson Copy Share Image
When I'm making music, like my album 'Pivot & Scrape,' I go into this daze-like state where I don't always know what… — Sophie Thatcher Copy Share Image
We have a religious renaissance today in America, as many people say. I would say this religious renaissance, ninety percent of it… — Erich Fromm Copy Share Image
'2001: A Space Odyssey' - I'd watched and hated it seven times before it provided the first 'religious experience' I'd ever had… — Justin Simien Copy Share Image
If I made laws for Shakers or a school, I should gazette every Saturday all the words they were wont to use… — Ralph Waldo Emerson Copy Share Image
Ultimately, jokes are this really special thing that we can all share. It's exciting to have basically a thousand people in a… — Mike Birbiglia Copy Share Image
It makes a tremendous emotional and practical difference to one whether one accepts the universe in the drab discolored way of stoic… — William James Copy Share Image
All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They… — Swami Vivekananda Copy Share Image
Getting my hair cut is just a very special moment for me. I don't know exactly why, but it's such an intimate,… — Jens Lekman Copy Share Image
For those to whom a stone reveals itself as sacred, its immediate reality is transmuted into supernatural reality. In other words, for… — Mircea Eliade Copy Share Image
Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize… — C. S. Lewis Copy Share Image
Real religion should be something that liberates men. But churches don't want free men who can think for themself and find their… — Federico Fellini Copy Share Image
I just had a thought that perhaps religion is so vibrant here is because of the melting pot aspect to our society.… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
No matter what the world thinks about religious experience, the one who has it possesses a great treasure, a thing that has… — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
I feel like one of the things that is central to American life is the religious experience, and I think that the… — Ayad Akhtar Copy Share Image
I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and… — Robert Fulghum Copy Share Image
The bible is not a religious experience for me. This book bundles together the entire culture of Judaism: our language, our history,… — Tommy Lapid Copy Share Image
The first time I ever saw Lydia Lunch perform it was a religious experience. Not only is she intelligent and beautiful but… — Jessicka Copy Share Image
![“...[A] strange necessity has been laid upon me to devote my life to the central concern that transcends the walls that divide and would achieve in literal fact what is experienced as literal truth: human life is one and all men are members of one another. And this insight is spiritual and it is…” quote by Howard Thurman](https://sms4smile.com/q/img-quotes/889/howard-thurman-11976_hard-core_a-strange-necessity-has-been-laid-upon-m_37987.jpg)
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