Experience Quote by Ashavan

“Religion is an individual experience of a universal mind and universal experience of an individual mind.”

— Ajmal Siddiqi

“Spirituality must be distinguished from religion—because people of every faith, and of none, have had the same sorts of spiritual experiences.”

— Sam Harris

Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience.

— Deepak Chopra

The experience of every past moment but belies the faith of each present.

— Henry David Thoreau

“Religions are metaphorical systems that give us bigger containers in which to hold our lives. A spiritual life allows us to move beyond the…

— Mary Bray Pipher

Religion isn't best understood primarily as a collection of beliefs held by backward people with fear and trembling for most of human history (religion…

— David Dark

“Because religious beliefs and experiences cannot be reliably validated through logical deduction or observational induction, validation occurs only by satisfying the emotions that motivate…

— Scott Atran

“My spiritual history must have as its underlying foundation a personal knowledge of Jesus Christ. To be born again means that I see Jesus.”

— Oswald Chambers

“Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience.”

— Steve Maraboli

“Religious experience involves an encounter with the holy, the mystery of the totally other that opens like a chasm before humans in unexpected ways,…

— Luke Timothy Johnson

Religion may be defined thus: a belief in, and homage rendered to, existences unseen and causes unknown.

— Frances Wright

Religion is a more or less organized way of remembering that every ministry points to a higher reality.

— Lawrence Kushner