If you have this deep feeling of empathy for the natural world, you feel it so profoundly. It's almost a religious experience.… — Alison Hawthorne Deming 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
“Conventional, organized religion, in its most decadent form, is an inert parody of the genuine religious experience as much as modern occult… — Zeena Schreck 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
Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that,… — Frederick Lenz 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
“...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
Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted… — Rebecca Goldstein Copy Share Image
When I was in my teens I had a series of intensely religious experiences. They deepened my sense of God as the… — Andrew Linzey 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
“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
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
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
“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
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
“Kaden gave another one of those unexpected barks of humor. “Yeah. And I’m telling you, my sister is a shameless, shameless woman,… — Amy Lane 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
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
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
“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
“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
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
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
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
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'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
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
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
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
“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
There's a difference between knowing God and knowing about God. Knowing about God is all of the stuff we've been told and… — Wayne Dyer Copy Share Image
“it’s not necessarily helpful to talk about poetry as if it were a device to be assembled or a religious experience to… — David Orr 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
