Do you become spiritual by performing ceremonies and rituals…? Ceremonies and rituals sometimes give a certain sensation, so-called uplift. But they are repetitious, and every sensation that is repeated soon wearies of itself.
When I do good, I feel good. When I do bad, I feel bad. That's my religion.
-Abraham Lincoln
It was the experience of mystery -- even if mixed with fear -- that engendered religion.
-Albert Einstein
Religion is excellent stuff for keeping common people quiet. Religion is what keeps the poor from murdering the rich.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
If I had to choose a religion, the sun as the universal giver of life would be my god.
-Napoleon Bonaparte
I have a problem with people who take the Constitution loosely and the Bible literally.
-Bill Maher
It is easy to talk on religion, but difficult to practice it.
-Ramakrishna Paramahamsa
Religion is something infinitely simple, ingenuous... In the infinite extent of the universe, it is a direction of the heart.
-Rainer Maria Rilke
A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.
-Alan Wilson Watts
Nothing is more disastrous for a human being than 'self-reproach'. Right from
self-confidence to your existence, it shatters everything. Yet these religious
gurus, ignorant of this science of mind, in order to run their businesses keep
feeding the feeling of sinfulness in people.
-Deep Trivedi
