Doe Quote by Tom Robbins

Mysticism is a rational enterprise. Religion is not. The mystic has recognized something about the nature of consciousness prior to thought, and this recognition…

— Sam Harris

Spirituality is intensely personal; religion is institutional.

— Dean Hamer

Organized religion has too often followed the road of other people's institutions. It has made adjustments, compromises, and surrenders to a materialistic civilization for…

— Saul Alinsky

Religion is a superstition that originated in man`s mental inability to solve natural phenomena. The Church is an orgainized institution that has always been…

— Emma Goldman

Over the centuries, religion has become institutionalized, and in the process encrusted with elaborate hierarchies, top-heavy bureaucracies, highly specialized roles and reflexive routines.

— Gary Hamel

A religion without mystics is a philosophy.

— Quintilian

Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to…

— Ram Dass

“outside of the structures of the existing institutionalized religions. There were always pockets of spirituality even in mind-dominated religions, although the institutionalized hierarchies felt…

— Eckhart Tolle

Religion has become an impersonal affair, an institutional loyalty. It survives on the level of activities rather than in the stillness of commitment.

— Abraham Joshua Heschel

From a historical viewpoint, religion is just a kind of superstition, and from a political viewpoint it is a tool of social control.

— Mario Bunge

Organized religious institutions are in for a huge transformation, for the simple reason that people have become genuinely religious in spite of them.

— Marianne Williamson

“Now the history of philosophy shows that religious belief which is primarily mystical may very well be compatible with a pronounced sense of reality…

— Max Weber