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• The people that weep before my paintings are having the same religious experience that I had when I painted it.

  Mark Rothko

  Religious, People, Emotion

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• The seat of faith, however, is not consciousness but spontaneous religious experience, which brings the individual's faith into immediate relation with God.

  Carl Jung

  Religious, Consciousness, Spontaneous

  "The Undiscovered Self: With Symbols and the Interpretation of Dreams". Book by Carl Jung, p. 85, 1958.

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• Math . . . music .. . starry nights . . . These are secular ways of achieving transcendence, of feeling lifted into a grand perspective. It's a sense of being awed by existence that almost obliterates the self. Religious people think of it as an essentially religious experience but it's not. It's an essentially human experience.

  Rebecca Goldstein

  Religious, Atheist, Math

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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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• 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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• 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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• I assert that the cosmic religious experience is the strongest and the noblest driving force behind scientific research.

  Albert Einstein

  Religious, Science, Religion

  Albert Einstein, George Bernard Shaw (2012). “Einstein on Cosmic Religion and Other Opinions and Aphorisms”, p.52, Courier Corporation

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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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• 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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• Man today being concerned with production and consumption as ends in themselves, has very little engergy time to devote himself to the true religious experience.

  Erich Fromm

  Religious, Men, Today

  Source: www.hrc.utexas.edu

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Let's say black, the whole black religious experience, here, is very impressive to me, because when I first arrived I realized that people carry their faith with so much pride.

  Boris Kodjoe

  Religious, Pride, People

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• Religions are tough. Either they make no contentions which are subject to disproof or they quickly redesign doctrine after disproof. ... near the core of the religious experience is something remarkably resistant to rational inquiry.

  Carl Sagan

  Religious, Science, Experience

  Carl Sagan (1979). “Broca's brain: reflections on the romance of science”, Random House Inc

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• Too many of us have lost the passion and emotion of the remarkable things we-ve done in space. Let us not tear up the future, but rather again heed the creative metaphors that render space travel a religious experience. When the blast of a rocket launch slams you against the wall and all the rust is shaken off your body, you will hear the great shout of the universe and the joyful crying of people who have been changed by what they-ve seen.

  Ray Bradbury

  Religious, Wall, Passion

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• Tens of thousands, perhaps millions, have come into some kind of religious experience by accepting Christ, and they have not been saved.

  Aiden Wilson Tozer

  Religious, Kind, Christ

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• Painting is almost like a religious experience, which should go on and on. Age just gives you the freedom to do some things you've never done before. Great work can come at any stage of your life.

  Will Barnet

  Religious, Giving, Age

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