#religions

Religious structure often dilutes the spiritual experience. ↗

— Steve Maraboli

#spiritual-experience #truth #experience

Nationalism is form of collective narcissism, where the citizens possess an inflated self-love of "their own people," to the exclusion of other human beings. ↗

— Bryant McGill

#faith #justification #religions #trust #faith

Yet rather than calling the earliest religions, which embraced such an open acceptance of all human sexuality, 'fertility cults,' we might consider the religions of today as strange in that they seem to associate shame and even sin with the very process of conceiving new human life. Perhaps centuries from now scholars and historians will be classifying them as 'sterility cults. ↗

— Merlin Stone

#goddess #pagan #religion #religions #sexuality

Perdamaian dunia tidak akan tercapai tanpa perdamaian antar dan intra umat beragama ↗

— Alwi Shihab

#peace #religions #love

Tell them we may not be praying with them," Father told the Vicar, "but we are at least not actively praying against them. ↗

— Alan Bradley

#religion

I think different religions are different doors to the same house. Sometimes I think the house exists, and sometimes I don’t. It’s the great mystery. (Steve Jobs) ↗

— Walter Isaacson

#steve-jobs #religion

I am not an enthusiast for diversity of opinion where facts are concerned. ↗

— Richard Dawkins

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The mystery religions were instituted in order to protect the marvels of the commonplace from those who would devalue them. ↗

— Peter Redgrove

#magic #magick #mystery-religions #mysthology #occult

... Gusti Cinta kami kepadamu tak terperi Namun itu tak diketahui Oleh diri kami sendiri Tolong ajarilah kami untuk berlatih Menyebut nama-Mu seribu kali sehari Sungguhpun satu huruf saja dari-Mu Tak kan tertandingi ... ↗

— MH Ainun Nadjib

#religions #reliji #religion

If Christianity was something we were making up, of course we could make it easier. But it isn't. We can't compete, in simplicity, with people who are inventing religions. How could we? We're dealing with Fact. Of course anyone can be simple if he has no facts to bother about! ↗

— C.S. Lewis

#facts #religions #simplicity #religion