Able Quote by Mat McNerney

When you're trying to free yourself from a religion that has been ingrained in you since childhood, it's more like ripping out your veins…

— Mat McNerney

The more you get into any religion, it becomes the same. It really becomes how you treat other people and how you get outside…

— Abel Ferrara

If your religion hasn't made you a better person, then it has failed you as a religion.

— Immortal Technique

You're just left with yourself all the time, whatever you do anyway. You've got to get down to your own God in your own…

— John Lennon

The goal of spiritual practice is full recovery, and the only thing you need to recover from is a fractured sense of self.

— Marianne Williamson

Thus meditating you will no longer strive to build yourself up in your prejudices, but, forgetting self, you will remember only that you are…

— James Allen

I broke with my religion in college.

— Anne Rice

“Trying harder doesn’t work. You should know that by now. Becoming more religious will only magnify the problem. Being disciplined and making a commitment…

— Steve Brown

Religion has stayed with me even though I rebelled.

— Grace Jones

Discard yourself and thereby regain yourself. Spread the trap of humility and ensnare love.

— Rumi

The best guide in life is strength. In religion, as in all other matters, discard everything that weakens you, have nothing to do with…

— Swami Vivekananda

“We also have to give up the notion of a divine savior, which has nothing to do with what religion we belong to, but…

— Chögyam Trungpa