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Meditation is a state of no-mind! You can not find meditation through the mind .. because mind will perpetuate itself! You can find meditation only… — Rajneesh
Mindfulness meditation is the embrace of any and all mind states in awareness, without preferring one to another. — Jon Kabat-Zinn
One has to reach to the absolute state of awareness: that is Zen. You cannot do it every morning for a few minutes or for… — Rajneesh
The Constitution established the United States of America as a Christian nation. — John McCain
As for the Jews, I am just carrying on with the same policy which the Catholic Church has adopted for fifteen hundred years, when it… — Adolf Hitler
They have kept us in submission because they have talked about separation of church and state. There is no such thing in the Constitution. It's… — Pat Robertson
Every one must act according to the dictates of his own reason, and mine tells me that civil powers alone have been given to the… — Thomas Jefferson
The United States of America should have a foundation free from the influence of clergy. — George Washington
The United States Constitutional Convention, except for three or four persons, thought prayers unnecessary. — Benjamin Franklin
Strongly guarded as is the separation between Religion and Government in the Constitution of the United States, the danger of encroachment by Ecclesiastical Bodies may… — James Madison
When indeed Religion is kindled into enthusiasm, its force like that of other passions is increased by the sympathy of a multitude. But enthusiasm is… — James Madison
The civil government ... functions with complete success ... by the total separation of the Church from the State. — James Madison
I am tolerant of all creeds. Yet if any sect suffered itself to be used for political objects I would meet it by political opposition.… — Millard Fillmore
In 1850, I believe, the church property in the United States, which paid no tax, amounted to $87 million. In 1900, without a check, it… — Ulysses S. Grant
I believe in the American tradition of separation of church and state which is expressed in the First Amendment to the Constitution. By my office… — Lyndon B. Johnson
I can't take my Catholic belief, my article of faith, and legislate it on a Protestant or a Jew or an Atheist. We have separation… — John F. Kerry
We in the United States, above all, must remember that lesson, for we were founded as a nation of openness to people of all beliefs.… — Ronald Reagan
Today we stand on a bridge leading from the territorial state to the world community. Politically, we are still governed by the concept of the… — Christian Lous Lange
A hundred years ago, the electric telegraph made possible-indeed, inevitable-the United States of America. The communications satellite will make equally inevitable a United Nations of… — Arthur C. Clarke
I do not believe any type of religion should ever be introduced into the public schools of the United States. — Thomas A. Edison
But a short time elapsed after the death of the great reformer of the Jewish religion, before his principles were departed from by those who… — Thomas Jefferson
What you don't understand is that it is possible to be an atheist, it is possible not to know if God exists or why He… — Boris Pasternak
..when, in my philosophical disquisitions, I deny a providence and a future state, I undermine not the foundations of society, but advance principles, which they… — David Hume
The better the state is established, the fainter is humanity. To make the individual uncomfortable, that is my task. — Friedrich Nietzsche
Cast your whole vote, not a piece of paper merely, but your whole influence. A minority is powerless when it conforms to a majority; but… — Henry David Thoreau

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