“Religions have always stressed that compassion is not only central to religious life, it is the key to enlightenment and it the true test of spirituality. But there have always have been those who'd rather put easier goals, like doctrine conformity, in place.” Has BeensSpiritualityGoalReligiousCompassionKeysEasierEnlightenmentTestsDoctrineConformitySetting GoalsStressedReligious Life Author:Karen Armstrong
“I thought that coming out was going to be the end of my religious life but actually it was the beginning. Because it only afterwards that I could be honest about who I was, what I wanted, how I understood spirituality.” EndsWantedSpiritualityReligiousHonestUnderstoodBeing HonestComing OutReligious Life Author:Jay Michaelson
“This watchfulness, this witnessing is the ultimate secret of creating a religious life, of creating a life of transcendence, a life of spirituality, of enlightenment, of buddhahood.” SpiritualityReligiousSecretCreatingEnlightenmentUltimateTranscendenceReligious LifeWatchfulness Author:Rajneesh
“India is a culture in which religious life and spirituality is very much on the surface of things. That doesn't mean it doesn't have depth, but it is very visible. There are lots of temples, lots of Islamic centers, lots of gurdwaras, and lots of teachers.” MeanCultureSpiritualityReligiousTeacherIndiaDepthSurfaceVisibleIslamicTemplesReligious Life Author:Diana L. Eck
“The further the spiritual evolution of mankind advances, the more certain it seems to me that the path to genuine religiosity does not lie through the fear of life, and the fear of death, and blind faith, but through striving after rational knowledge.” LifeDoeGodSeemsMotivationalSpiritualLyingCertainReligionSpiritualityFearKnowledgePathAtheismMankindEvolutionBlindStriveAtheistGenuineRationalScience And ReligionFear Of DeathReligious FaithRelativitySpiritual PathRational ThinkingAtheisticSpirit Of GodBlind FaithReligion GodGod LifeKnowledge Of GodScience ReligionFears Of LifeMore KnowledgeReligious LifeMorality And ReligionSpiritual EvolutionFaith ReligionGod And ScienceScience GodSpiritual KnowledgeGreatest AtheistHave Faith In GodCertain DeathCertain KnowledgeAdvances In ScienceSpiritual FaithGod And LifeGod Is RealGenuine Life Book:Ideas and Opinions Source: Ideas and Opinions
“One of the greatest difficulties the left faces in reaching out to masses of people in America is its profound disrespect of spirituality and religious life…people on the left need to acknowledge – we need to grapple with – the question of religion.” PeopleNeedsAmericaFacesSpiritualityLeftReligiousMassDifficultyProfoundAcknowledgeReachingReach OutDisrespectReligious Life Author:Bell Hooks
“To be alive spiritually man must have union with God and must be conscious of it. Apart from this union his religious life will be an empty drudgery, a mere imitation of true spirituality.” MenSpiritualSpiritualityReligiousAliveConsciousEmptyUnionsMereImitationDrudgeryReligious Life Author:Alan Watts
“You may have practical ethics and that kind of thing, but there is no spirituality in any aspect of our Western civilization. Our religious life is ethical, not mystical. The mystery has gone and society is disintegrating as a result.” KindMaySpiritualLife IsSpiritualityReligiousResultsGoneMysteryCivilizationEthicsAspectWesternPracticalsEthicalMysticalWestern CivilizationReligious Life Author:David Kudler