Quotes About Connection

In your eyes I see the doorway to a thousand churches.

The object of our lives is to look at, listen to, touch, taste things. Without them, - these sticks, stones, feathers, shells, - there is no Deity.

When you have succeeded in enshrining God within your heart, you will see Him everywhere.

People are my religion/Because I believe in them.

...for limited purposes only, let me define religion as a set of symbolic forms and acts which relate man to the ultimate conditions of his existence.

We are all one. Ours is not a better way, ours is merely another way.

Sure, Christianity is a world religion and I don't deny that. But having said that, this is, when it is all said and done, a relationship with God.

No Buddhist, no Christian, no Hindu. Deeply religious people have no religion. They belong to no seat, theirs is the religion of the heart!

I call him religious who understands the suffering of others.

One's own religion is after all a matter between oneself and one's Maker and no one else's.

religion is poetry, - poetry is religion.

The humble, meek, merciful, and just are everywhere of one religion; and when death has taken off the mask they will know one another, though the diverse liveries they wear here make them strangers.

Art always helps religion; it became an inseparable phenomenon when human beings gained consciousness.

Spirituality is meant to take us beyond our tribal identity into a domain of awareness that is more universal.

We have always been searching for home. It's in our art... our religion... everything.

I think people often come to the synagogue, mosque, the church looking for God, and what we give them is religion.

Everything was God, holy; as God is total, so the driftwood branch was holy. This must be the stuff religion is made of.

First, we must liberate people from religion, as religion is understood and practiced today. Second, we must effect a paradigm shift from religiosity to shared spirituality.

The trouble with being a god is that you've got no one to pray to.

The essence of Christianity, as I see it, is love. The essence of Humanism (and I'm also a Humanist) is love. At that level, we're not far apart.

You know, I get much more Jewish in Israel because I like the way that religion is done there.

The final goal of all religions is to realise the essential oneness.

Birds make their nest in circles, for theirs is the same religion as ours.

There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion.