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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence,…
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
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In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
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One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is…
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Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
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Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities?…
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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing…
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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to…
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One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.
— Mahatma Gandhi
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I am a Hindu by birth. And yet I do not know much of Hinduism, and I know less of other religions.…
— Mahatma Gandhi
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A glorious Church is like a magnificent feast; there is all the variety that may be, but every one chooses out a…
— John Selden
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I don't take any responsibility for the lunatic fringes of my own religion.
— Joanne Kathleen Rowling
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This planet is not terra firma. It is a delicate flower and it must be cared for. It's lonely. It's small. It's…
— Scott Carpenter
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I hope we will not so characterize religious people as being so narrow and so biased towards people not of their own…
— Barney Frank
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Since I have heard often enough that everyone in the end has his own religion, nothing seemed more natural to me than…
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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Religion is a great force - the only real motive force in the world; but what you fellows don't understand is that…
— George Bernard Shaw
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If you really want to make a lot of money, start your own religion.
— L. Ron Hubbard
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One cannot offend, make war, kill in the name of one's own religion, that is, in the name of God.
— Pope Francis
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Read myths. They teach you that you can turn inward, and you begin to get the message of the symbols. Read other…
— Joseph Campbell
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If today you can take a thing like evolution and make it a crime to teach it in the public school, tomorrow…
— Clarence Darrow
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