“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
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
“Insofar as the intervention of grace constitutes the core of religious experience, the constant aim of every religious movement ought to be… — Adam Miller 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
“Humans: such a brilliant model of emotional self-awareness," Aineko says with a theatrical sigh. "You're as stupid as it's possible for an… — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
“...there is no deeper religious feeling than the feeling for the natural world. I wouldn't separate the world of nature from the… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“It is as if Protestantism by clinging to the Scripture wished to preserve the last faint echoes of God’s Word in a… — Hermann Broch 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
“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
One of the most amazing abilities of sexuality is to momentarily transcend the borders of Self into something that is no longer… — Esther Perel 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
“Many will argue that there is nothing remotely spiritual in combat. Consider this. Mystical or religious experiences have four common components: constant… — Karl Marlantes Copy Share Image
“It seems to me that we do live in two worlds... there is this physical one, which is coherant, and there is… — William Golding Copy Share Image
Funny you mention my dinner parties when I have just suggested that inviting close friends over to share a meal with candlelight… — Sally Quinn 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
“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 fact that people have religious experiences is interesting from the psychological point of view, but it does not in any way… — A.J. Ayer 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
I'm interested in the origins of the religious experience, how the history of religion has evolved over the last umpteen thousand years,… — Reza Aslan 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
“We drove 22 miles into the country around Farmington. There were meadows and apple orchards. White fences trailed through the rolling fields.… — Don DeLillo Copy Share Image
I say that creeds, dogmas, and theologies are inventions of the mind. It is the nature of the mind to make sense… — Howard Thurman 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 third reason behind the preservation of doctrine is that Pentecostals have struggled to balance biblical teaching with their religious experience. Committed… — Stanley M. Horton 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
