“A person must be in the religious search not for the sake of religious experiences, which can deceive, but for the sake… — Anonymous 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
One ape's hallucination is another ape's religious experience - it just depends on which one’s god module is overactive at the time. — Charles Stross Copy Share Image
I was brought up by an Episcopalian father and Presbyterian mother in nondenominational Army chapels all over the world and never really… — Sally Quinn Copy Share Image
“Wine is a new drink,” Dionysus explained. “But it’s more than just a drink. It’s a religious experience!” — Rick Riordan Copy Share Image
Good humor is a philosophic state of mind; it seems to say to nature that we take her no more seriously than… — Ernest Renan Copy Share Image
A sense of continuity with the rest of creation is a form of religious experience essential to sanity. — Rene Dubos Copy Share Image
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude. — William James Copy Share Image
“It probably didn't help that we kept being taken on holiday to monasteries. Not many kids there, just monks. Although you do… — Tom McRae 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
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
I've been on a faculty in a university, and I felt it was incumbent on me to deal with the Bible not… — Hershel Shanks 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
The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions..… — Mark Rothko Copy Share Image
The revealed and mystic literature of mankind bears ample testimony to the fact that religious experience has been too enduring and dominant… — Anonymous Copy Share Image
I'm not a really religious person, but those moments onstage feel like some sort of religious experience because no one holds back,… — Sam Smith 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
“It is a profound mistake to imagine that Christianity ever intended to dissipate the bewilderment and even the terror, the sense of… — C.S. Lewis Copy Share Image
“Distance reminds us that there’s a lot more to the universe than just people—that there’s even a lot more to people than… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
The Eucharist is the full realization of the worship which humanity owes to God, and it cannot be compared to any other… — Pope John Paul II 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
“Religious beliefs are sometimes based not on testimony by others but on religious experiences of the believer.” — Walter Sinnott-Armstrong Copy Share Image
If I had a religious experience, what I know for sure is that I would stop doing philosophy and would start doing… — Simon Critchley 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
Cleanliness is not next to godliness. It isn't even in the same neighborhood. No one has ever gotten a religious experience out… — Erma Bombeck Copy Share Image
“...You think if I haven't had your religious experience I can't appreciate the magnificence of your god. But it's just the opposite.… — Carl Sagan Copy Share Image
“The effective object of worship is the bottle and the sole religious experience is that state of uninhibited and belligerent euphoria which… — Aldous Huxley Copy Share Image
“With its reverent silence the Library was as close to a religious experience as anything he had ever encountered. Its domed reading… — J.E Allen Copy Share Image
A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the… — Huston Smith 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
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
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
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
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
