God:
"The best way to know God is to love many things." Vincent Van Gogh"I'm not into isms and asms. There isn't a Catholic moon and a Baptist sun. I know the universal God is universal.... I feel that the same God-force that is the mother and father of the pope is also the mother and father of the loneliest wino on the planet." Dick Gregory
"God is the inner principle of all movement, the only identity which already fulfils and illuminates the universe. Everything is incorporated in this one principle, because it encloses infinity, it includes everything, and there is nothing that could be outside of it." Giordano Bruno
Reality:
"I do not know whether I was then a man dreaming I was a butterfly, or whether I am now a butterfly dreaming that I am a man." Chuang Tzu"Because our representation of reality is so much easier to grasp than reality itself, we tend to confuse the two and to take our concepts and symbols for reality." Friitjof Capra
"If the doors of perception were cleansed every thing would appear to man as it is, infinite." William Blake
"The inner man is the substantial reality; while the other one is only an apparition." Paracelsus
Luminous beings are we - not this crude matter. Yoda
Science:
"The priests used to say that faith can move mountains, and nobody believed them. Today the scientists say that they can level mountains, and nobody doubts them." Joseph Campbell"A legitimate conflict between science and religion cannot exist. Science without religion is lame, religion without science is blind." Albert Einstein
"Science can purify religion from error and superstition; religion can purify science from idolatry and false absolutes. Each can draw the other into a wider world, a world in which both can flourish…We need each other to be what we must be, what we are called to be." Pope John Paul II
Sex:
"Da mihi castitatem et continentiam, sed noli modo" (Grant me chastity and continence, but not yet!)Saint AugustineGod created sex. Priests created marriage. Voltaire
"Life in Lubbock, Texas, taught me two things: One is that God loves you and you're going to burn in hell. The other is that sex is the most awful, filthy thing on earth and you should save it for someone you love." Butch Hancock
More Quotes on Sex and Religion
Belief:
"The fact that a believer is happier than a skeptic is no more to the point than the fact than a drunken man is happier than a sober one." George Bernard Shaw"Small amounts of philosophy lead to atheism, but larger amounts bring us back to God." Francis Bacon
"Man is a being born to believe. And if no church comes forward with its title-deeds of truth to guide him, he will find altars and idols in his own heart and his own imagination." Benjamin Disraeli
Love:
"I attach more importance to love and work than to meditation. Love without meditation is enough -meditation without love is not." Meher Baba"This is love: to fly toward a secret sky, to cause a hundred veils to fall each moment. First to let go of life. Finally, to take a step without feet. " Rumi
"Driven by the force of love the fragments of the world seek each other that the world may come into being." Teilhard de Chardin
"I love you when you bow in your mosque, kneel in your temple, pray in your church. For you and I are sons of one religion, and it is the spirit." Kahlil Gibran
"Love is the Law." Aleister Crowley
Miracles & Magick:
"There are only two ways to live your life. One is as though nothing is a miracle. The other is as though everything is a miracle." Albert Einstein"Magic is the art and science of changing consciousness at will." Dion Fortune
"The magic begins in you. Feel your own energy, and realize similar energy exists within the Earth, stones, plants, water, wind, fire, colors, and animals." Scott Cunningham
"Your talent is God's gift to you. What you do with it is your gift back to God." Leo Buscaglia
"The hunger for love is much more difficult to remove than the hunger for bread." Mother Teresa
Belief: Humorous:
"I still say a church steeple with a lightening rod on top shows a lack of confidence." Doug McLeod"I'm completely in favor of the separation of Church and State. My idea is that these two institutions screw us up enough on their own, so both of them together is certain death. " George Carlin
"In the beginning the Universe was created. This has made a lot of people very angry and been widely regarded as a bad move." Douglas Adams
"Sacred cows make the tastiest hamburger." Abbie Hoffman
"How can I believe in God when just last week I got my tongue caught in the roller of an electric typewriter? " Woody Allen
Entheogens:
"How about a positive LSD story? Wouldn't that be news-worthy, just the once? To base your decision on information rather than scare tactics and superstition and lies? I think it would be news-worthy. "Today, a young man on acid realized that all matter is merely energy condensed to a slow vibration. That we are all one consciousness experiencing itself subjectively, there is no such thing as death, life is only a dream and we're the imagination of ourselves." "Here's Tom with the weather." -Bill Hicks
Transcendence:
"I am perception and knowledge, uttering a Voice by means of Thought. I am the real Voice. I cry out in everyone, and they know that a seed dwells within." Sophia, Trimorphic Protennoia"To see a world in a grain of sand, and heaven in a wildflower, hold infinity in the palm of your hand, and eternity in an hour." William Blake
"My religion consists of a humble admiration of the illimitable superior spirit who reveals himself in the slight details we are able to perceive with our frail and feeble mind." Albert Einstein
"Joy is the most infallible sign of the presence of God." Teilhard de Chardin
"It is enough for me to contemplate the mystery of conscious life, perpetuating itself through all eternity; to reflect upon the marvelous structure of the Universe; and to try humbly to comprehend even an infinitesimal part of the intelligence manifested in nature." Albert Einstein
"There will come a time when you believe everything is finished. That will be the beginning." Louis L'Amour
"The best and most beautiful things in this world cannot be seen or even heard, but must be felt with the heart." Helen Keller
"Each small task of everyday life is part of the total harmony of the universe." St. Theresa
"When mind soars in pursuit of the things conceived in space, it pursues emptiness. But when the man dives deep within himself, he experiences the fullness of existence." Meher Baba
"Come, come, whoever you are. Worshiper, Wanderer, Lover of Leaving; ours is not a caravan of despair. Though you have broken your vows a thousand times...Come, come again, Come." Rumi
"The successful Adept…traverses the seven angels… representing the chief operations of the Great Work… And even upon reaching the Philosophers' Stone, he finds it is held in custody by a formidable Dragon." Heinrich Khunrath (1606)
"The bird fights its way out of the egg. The egg is the world. Who would be born must first destroy a world. The bird flies to God. That God's name is Abraxas." Hermann Hesse, Demian
