Religion Quote by Deepak Chopra

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

— Deepak Chopra

“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

Atheists maintain that spiritual experience is purely subjective, with no basis in a reality outside of the subject.

— Robert Todd Carroll

“Defining atheism as a religion is embellishment and bad philosophy.”

— Al Stefanelli

“Religious beliefs are sometimes based not on testimony by others but on religious experiences of the believer.”

— Walter Sinnott-Armstrong

I don't think atheism means one does not believe in a spiritual life. I think it means one does not follow the tenets of…

— Amanda Donohoe

Spirituality means seeking experience. Not just belief.

— Goswami Kriyananda

“Religion is to follow someone else's word as truth; whereas Spirituality is to discover your own truth through inquiry, experimentation and experience.”

— Yogi Kanna

“Religion is a way of life, but knowing God is a way of living beyond yourself. It’s a relationship with a living, supernatural being.”

— Love Belvin

“Religion is for those individuals trying to avoid going to hell. Spirituality is for those of us who have been there.”

— United Methodish Church bulletin

“I would not have described myself as a committed atheist for whom all spirituality was nonsense, but as an agnostic in whom large areas…

— Jennifer Worth