“The image of God is your final obstruction to a religious experience.” — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one. — Lady Gaga Copy Share Image
“Take a pinch of belief in God, add a dash of desire to experience God, stir in emotion to taste, and you… — Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Copy Share Image
The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it. — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
One time on a dive, I wound up drifting up in darkness surrounded by billions of photoluminescent creatures. It was a religious… — Graham Hawkes Copy Share Image
“Religious experiences also occur only when emotions run high and only to those who were predisposed to believe.” — Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Copy Share Image
The seat of faith...is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God. — Carl Jung Copy Share Image
The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable. — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“This isn't just a shopping mall. It's more like..." "A religious experience?" "Exactly! It's like going to church...” — J.G. Ballard Copy Share Image
Going to my shows, it's like a religious experience, because you come out, you go in one person, you come out a… — Michael Jackson Copy Share Image
“In Varieties of Religious Experience, William James says that for an experience to be visionary or ecstatic it must be passive (that… — Lisa R. Spaar Copy Share Image
Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he… — Muhammad Iqbal Copy Share Image
“In the case of someone who is spiritual receptive, it is possible to talk of an analogy between the impact made by… — Andrei Tarkovsky 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
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
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
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
Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and… — Albert Einstein Copy Share Image
“some of our colleagues even think that we are in a position to create other universes for ourselves. In other words, first… — Marco Bersanelli Copy Share Image
Looking back through the mists of time, I recall some distinctly religious experiences in my teens--when I was only fourteen years old… — Andrew Linzey Copy Share Image
Jesus proclaimed, Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is at hand. .. He is saying that a whole new order is about… — Jim Wallis Copy Share Image
“The higher goal of spiritual living is not to amass a wealth of information, but to face sacred moments. In a religious… — Abraham Joshua Heschel 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
A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according… — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Whether any surfer wants to admit it or not, I think we've all had moments like looking at nice waves coming through… — Gerry Lopez Copy Share Image
“We have sought to read Revelation less as a coded text to be interpreted, and more as a text that imposed a… — David A. Desilva Copy Share Image
“The fear, as I analyze it in retrospect, was of being overwhelmed, of disintegrating under a pressure of reality greater than a… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“Religions are metaphorical systems that give us bigger containers in which to hold our lives. A spiritual life allows us to move… — Mary Bray Pipher Copy Share Image
“Jung called the quality of eternity or religious power associated with the imaginal numinosity, a term he revived from Rudolf Otto's original… — Sandra Dennis 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
“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
“The fears and concerns I'd had earlier about how my journey would affect my children were long gone. I was learning that… — Sue Monk Kidd Copy Share Image
I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing. — Joseph Campbell Copy Share Image
Father knew me not. All my aspirations in life were a sealed book to him, as much as his peculiar religious experiences… — John Burroughs Copy Share Image
“Painting and religious experience are the same thing, and what we are all searching for is the understanding and realization of infinity.” — Ben Nicholson Copy Share Image
