“The Sabians were allowed to build a new Temple of the Moon God, and to continue their religious rites, after the Arab… — Graham Hancock Copy Share Image
“What man most passionately wants is his living wholeness and his living unison, not his own isolate salvation of his "soul." Man… — D.H. Lawrence Copy Share Image
“There are secularised cultures, but at the core of all of them, the spirit of Tradition remains, religious or otherwise. By defending… — Alexander Dugin Copy Share Image
“Especially to be avoided is approaching Kant's life in a spirit of hero worship or hagiography -- as though our interest in… — Allen W. Wood Copy Share Image
“Mahomet now proceeded to execute the great object of his religious aspirations, the purifying of the sacred edifice from the symbols of… — Washington Irving Copy Share Image
“I am a cuddly atheist... I am against creationism being taught in schools because there is empirical evidence that it is a… — Jim Al-Khalili Copy Share Image
“Character gains through its expression, and loses through its repression. Love grows through its expression. Sympathy grows through its expression. Knowledge grows… — Henry Clay Trumbull Copy Share Image
“Incubus?" I asked Ben. He nodded grimly. "A lost soul-usually male-turned evil spirit that attaches itself to someone in order to lead… — Hilary Duff Copy Share Image
“Many questions come to mind. How influenced by contemporary religions were many of the scholars who wrote the texts available today? How… — Merlin Stone Copy Share Image
“Princes had, so to speak, turned violence into a physical thing but our democratic republics have made it into something as intellectual… — Alexis de Tocqueville Copy Share Image
“I had fallen into a profound dream-like reverie in which I heard him speaking as at a distance. 'And yet there is… — W.B. Yeats Copy Share Image
“Jesus said: If the flesh has come into existence because of the spirit, it is a marvel; but if the spirit has… — Osho Copy Share Image
“To understand why I jumped from the Mormon wagon train requires an understanding of what Mormons are and how they think. While… — Steve Benson Copy Share Image
“Sometimes chance is on the believer’s side and he or she does resolve the problems after praying or otherwise petitioning the supernatural,… — David G. McAfee Copy Share Image
“The ancient sages of Kashmir Shaivism did not look for the truth only in logic and intellectual speculation. They relied much more… — Balajinnatha Pandita Copy Share Image
“All the books were beginning to turn against me. Indeed, I must have been blind as a bat not to have seen… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“This education startled even a man who had dabbled in fifty educations all over the world; for, if he were obliged to… — Henry Adams Copy Share Image
“More daring, though, was Jung’s uninhibited interest in spiritualism, which by this time had become a controversial topic on both sides of… — Gary Valentine Lachman Copy Share Image
“ 'how then does soul differ from spirit?' you're probably asking yourself. although he must have been reasonably sure nobody was. "Well,… — Tom Robbins Copy Share Image
“I don’t know why religious zealots have this compulsion to try to convert everyone who passes before them – I don’t go… — Bill Bryson Copy Share Image
“Of course, even when you see the world as a trap and posit a fundamental separation between liberation of self and transformation… — Joanna Macy Copy Share Image
“A little murmur of admiration greeted this neat reply and on the crest of it the hostess rose to dismiss the meeting.… — Evelyn Waugh Copy Share Image
“What characterizes an addiction?” asks the spiritual teacher Eckhart Tolle. “Quite simply this: you no longer feel that you have the power… — Gabor Maté Copy Share Image
“The topic of disinterested, non-calculating, and purposeless love for the sake of love is central to mysticism as such. To love God,… — Dorothee Soelle Copy Share Image
“Religious despair is often a defense against boredom and the daily grind of existence. Lacking intensity in our lives, we say that… — Christian Wiman Copy Share Image
“The veil of forgetfulness that divides eternity in two has its own powerful justifications. Philip Barlow, a modern religious scholar, has written… — Terryl L. Givens Copy Share Image
“The first task of discernment, then, is not a closing off but an opening up, what we might call responsive discernment. If… — Steven R. Guthrie Copy Share Image
“If a man begins his sacrifice when the flames are luminous, and considers for the offerings the signs of heaven, then the… — Juan Mascaró Copy Share Image
“In “The Cost of Discipleship” Dietrich Bonhoeffer makes it clear that grace is free, but it is not cheap. The grace of… — Richard J. Foster Copy Share Image
“That hundreds of millions of people believe that a man named Noah built an ark and put all of the world's species… — Eric Maisel Copy Share Image
“A love of neighbor manifests itself in the tolerance not only of opinions of others but, what is more important, of the… — Joshua Loth Liebman Copy Share Image
“But I realized something. About art. And psychiatry. They're both self-perpetuating systems. Like religion. All three of them promise you a sense… — Samuel R. Delany Copy Share Image
“You should observe, and have observed, in which direction God urges you most of all to go, for, as St. Paul says,… — Meister Eckhart Copy Share Image
“ Where did secular liberalism go wrong? It has been undone by its own ideas. The first idea is that matters of… — Austin Dacey Copy Share Image
“The eye of the spirit can nowhere find more dazzling brilliance and more shadow than in man; it can fix itself on… — Victor Hugo Copy Share Image
“Man is the Reasoning Animal. Such is the claim. I think it is open to dispute. Indeed, my experiments have proven to… — Mark Twain Copy Share Image
“The idea of the supernatural as being something over and above the natural is a killing idea. In the Middle Ages this… — Joseph Campbell 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
“We have shown that social enjoyment and amusements are not incompatible with correct conduct and true religion. Instead of forbidding the theatre… — John Taylor Copy Share Image
“I dwell mostly upon the religious aspects, because I believe it is the religious people who are to be relied upon in… — Frederick Douglass Copy Share Image
