For those of us who profess to believe in a particular…

I certainly do have this feeling of affection for the absolute sense of intellectual freedom that exists as a live nerve, a live wire,…

— Norman Mailer

All I needed was an intense feeling of affection to bring me in from the cold.

— Dominic Riccitello

“Do you ever get the feeling that when you show someone your affection for them, you are assaulting them? Like you should probably leave…

— Henry Rollins

“It seems that scientific research reaches deeper and deeper. But it also seems that more and more people, at least scientists, are beginning to…

— Dalai Lama XIV

“Too much self-centered thinking is the source of suffering. A compassionate concern for others’ well-being is the source of happiness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

“A compassionate concern for others’ well-being is the source of happiness.”

— Dalai Lama XIV

A Buddhist is working not just to get paid, but working to advance spiritually. You shouldn't create a syntactical break in your mind between…

— Frederick Lenz

“Belief without any practice is of no use to us. But there are two sides to religious practice: one is the ritualistic, which is…

— Roger Scruton

When I became an adult, I had absolutely nothing against drinking alcohol. Many of my friends drank. I would often make wine and offer…

— David C. Driskell

The motivation of all religious practice is similar: love, sincerity, honesty. The way of life of practically all religious persons is consistent. The teachings…

— Anonymous

Moreover, most people, assuming they had not altogether abandoned religious observances, or did not combine them naively with a thoroughly immoral way of living,…

— Albert Camus

“Meditation is a secular practice, not a religious practice.”

— Abhijit Naskar

Religious liberty is about freedom of action in matters of religion generally, and the scope of that liberty is directly correlated to the civil…

— Clarence Thomas

The three principal samskaras have to do with sex, money and power. In all those countless incarnations that one goes through in the religious…

— Frederick Lenz

Spiritual truth is something that is so far from us - without any form or name that we can imagine - that we need…

— Eugene Green