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• While I have never been a regular churchgoer, I'm anything but immune to the power and the majesty of the religious experience.

  Joseph Barbera

  Religious, Religion, Majesty

  Joseph Barbera (1994). “My Life in 'Toons: From Flatbush to Bedrock in Under a Century”, Turner Pub

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• Spirituality is an inner fire, a mystical sustenance that feeds our souls. The mystical journey drives us into ourselves, to a sacred flame at our center. The purpose of the religious experience is to develop the eyes by which we see this inner flame, and our capacity to live its mystery. In its presence, we are warmed and ignited. When too far from the blaze, we are cold and spiritually lifeless. We are less than human without that heat. Our connection to God is life itself.

  Marianne Williamson

  Religious, Eye, Journey

  Marianne Williamson (2013). “Illuminata: Thoughts, Prayers, Rites of Passage”, p.33, Random House

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• I think of compassion as the fundamental religious experience and, unless that is there, you have nothing.

  Joseph Campbell

  Religious, Thinking, Compassion

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• A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the mysteries (with or without entheogens), but they have other business to do: widen understanding, give meaning, provide solace, promote loving-kindness, and connect human being to human being.

  Huston Smith

  Religious, Kindness, Giving

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• Work is a substitute religious experience for many workaholics.

  Mary Daly

  Religious, Work, Substitutes

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• No student of Chinese history can say that the Chinese are incapable of religious experience, even when judged by the standards of medieval Europe or pious India.

  Hu Shih

  Religious, Europe, Chinese

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• I'm good at doing the laundry. At least that. And it's a religious experience...Water, earth, fire-polarities of wet and dry, hot and cold, dirty and clean. The great cycles-round and round-beginning and end-Alpha and Omega, amen.

  Robert Fulghum

  Religious, Work, Dirty

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• Our religious institutions have far too often become handmaidens of the status quo, while the genuine religious experience is anything but that. True religion is by nature disruptive of
  what has been, giving birth to the eternally new.

  Marianne Williamson

  Religious, Giving, Religion

  Marianne Williamson (1994). “Illuminata: A Return to Prayer”, Riverhead Trade (Paperbacks)

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• Men may believe what they cannot prove. They may not be put to the proof of their religious doctrines or beliefs. Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

  William O. Douglas

  Religious, Real, Believe

  "United States v. Ballard, 322 U.S. 78". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 24, 1944.

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• Many a man, brought up in the glib profession of some shallow form of Christianity, who comes through reading Astronomy to realize for the first time how majestically indifferent most reality is to man, and who perhaps abandons his religion on that account, may at that moment be having his first genuinely religious experience.

  C. S. Lewis

  Religious, Reading, Reality

  C. S. Lewis (1996). “Miracles: A Preliminary Study”, Touchstone Books

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• A woman should keep her separateness, should save all her feminine qualities and purify them. In this way she is going, according to her nature, towards enlightenment. Of course once you are enlightened, you have gone beyond the discrimination of sexes. Beyond enlightenment, you are simply human beings. But before that... Be proud of your qualities. Increase them, refine them because they are the path towards godliness. Man is not in a better position than woman as far as religious experience is concerned.

  Rajneesh

  Religious, Sex, Men

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• The standpoint of the man who relies on religious experience for capturing Reality must always remain individual and incommunicable.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Reality, Men

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• Another way of judging the value of a prophet's religious experience, therefore, would be to examine the type of manhood that he has created, and the cultural world that has sprung out of the spirit of his message.

  Muhammad Iqbal

  Religious, Judging, Would Be

  Sir Muhammad Iqbal (2000). “The religious thought in Islam”

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• Common to all these types is the anthropomorphic character of their conception of God. In general, only individuals of exceptional endowments, and exceptionally high-minded communities, rise to any considerable extent above this level. But there is a third stage of religious experience which belongs to all of them, even though it is rarely found in a pure form: I shall call it cosmic religious feeling. It is very difficult to elucidate this feeling to anyone who is entirely without it, especially as there is no anthropomorphic conception of God corresponding to it.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Character, Community

  "Religion and Science", New York Times Magazine, November 9, 1930.

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• and while faith based on theological reasoning is today universally engaged in a bitter struggle with doubt and resistance from the prevailing brand of rationalism, it does seem that the naked fundamental experience itself, that primal seizure of mystic insight, stripped of religious concepts, perhaps no longer to be regarded as a religious experience at all, has undergone an immense expansion and now forms the soul of that complex irrationalism that haunts our era like a night bird lost in the dawn.

  Robert Musil

  Religious, Struggle, Night

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• It {Darwin's theory of evolution] was a concept of such stunning simplicity, but it gave rise, naturally, to all of the infinite and baffling complexity of life. The awe it inspired in me made the awe that people talk about in respect of religious experience seem, frankly, silly beside it. I'd take the awe of understanding over the awe of ignorance any day.

  Douglas Adams

  Religious, Silly, Ignorance

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• All who have actually attained any real religious experience never wrangle over the form in which the different religions are expressed. They know that the soul of all religions is the same and so they have no quarrel with anybody just because he or she does not speak in the same tongue.

  Swami Vivekananda

  Religious, Real, Soul

  "Pearls of Wisdom". Book by Swami Vivekananda, edited by the Ramakrishna Mission, 2010.

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• Religious experiences which are as real as life to some may be incomprehensible to others.

  William O. Douglas

  Religious, Real, May

  "United States v. Ballard, 322 U.S. 78". U.S. Supreme Court case, supreme.justia.com. April 24, 1944.

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• Sharing is the most precious religious experience. Sharing is good.

  Rajneesh

  Love, Religious, Good Love

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• Meditation essentially means having a great time. Some people have applied a sense or a feeling to the meditative experience, such that, meditation has become a quantifiable religious experience, which means it's not any fun!

  Frederick Lenz

  Inspirational, Religious, Fun

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• The fact that people break down and cry when confronted with my pictures shows that I can communicate those basic human emotions.. the people who weep before my pictures are having the same religious experience I had when painting them. And if you say you are moved only by their color relationships then you miss the point.

  Mark Rothko

  Religious, Color, People

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• The angels started singing, the clouds parted, it was a religious experience. I've never had the same reaction to a product, not in 25 years.

  Guy Kawasaki

  Religious, Angel, Clouds

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• Though we [Humanists] take a strict position on what constitutes knowledge, we are not critical of the source of ideas. Often intuitive feelings, hunches, speculation, and flashes of inspiration prove to be excellent sources of novel approaches, new ways of looking at things, new discoveries, and new information. We do not disparage those ideas derived from religious experience, altered states of consciousness, or the emotions; we merely declare that testing these ideas against reality is the only way to determine their validity as knowledge.

  Fred Edwords

  Religious, Inspiration, Reality

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• I know many people who believe in a god, and I expected to find him on my way to the South Pole if he exists. My religious experiences were very different however, [only] involving myself, nature and the universe.

  Liv Arnesen

  Religious, Believe, People

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• I never intended for the Monster Ball to be a religious experience, it just became one.

  Lady Gaga

  Religious, Monsters, Balls

  "Lady Gaga: Lording it". Interview with Simon Hattenstone, www.theguardian.com. May 13, 2011.

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