"Religion is believing someone else's experience, spirituality is having your own experience."
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"All things change, nothing perishes."
"Spirituality is that attitude which puts life at the center, and defends and promotes life against all the mechanisms of death, desiccation, or stagnation."
"People have a peculiar pleasure in making converts, that is, in causing others to enjoy what they enjoy, thus finding their own likeness represented and reflected back to them."
"I'm not sure about anything as far as religion and spirituality go."
"Again, I maintain that no organization can lead man to spirituality."
"We must have the faith that things will work out somehow, that God will make a way for us when there seems no way."
"Possibly the words materialism and spirituality express two sides of one and the same fact."
"Spirituality is not some external goal that one must seek, but a part of the divine core of each of us, which we must reveal."
"Your birthday is the vintage of your wine; the mark that warns you of your future."
"Nuns fret not at their convent's narrow room; And hermits are contented with their cells."
"You will find the Divine in the last place, because once you find it, you will not go on searching."
"Madam de Stael pronounced architecture to be frozen music; so is statuary crystalized spirituality."
"I think the time has come for us to embrace spirituality as a domain of awareness where we all experience our universal nature, where we all experience our inseparability, where we all know love as the ultimate truth at the heart of creation."
"What is matter? Never mind."
"That which we call sin in others is experiment for us."
"The life of the spirit is not our life, but the life of God within us."
"Technology is not in itself opposed to spirituality and to religion. But it presents a great temptation."
"Religions are founded by what mystics say when they come back; but what the mystics say is not the same as what happened to them."
"Spirituality is invisible. Never forget that. If you can see it, if it's dressed in funny robes, if it's up there to be looked at, if it's making a big performance of itself, it is not spirituality. It is ego."