To identify with others is to see something of yourself in them and to see something of them in yourself--even if the only thing you identify with is the desire to be free from suffering.
This highest kind of truth is never something the artist takes as given. It's not his point of departure but his goal. Though the artist has beliefs, like other people, he realizes that a salient characteristic of art is its radical openness to persu...
When we become aware of feeling low it can be a reason to rejoice. Why would we be distressed knowing that some unconscious negative belief is trying to get our attention. Let it surface. When we see what it is, it can be transformed into understandi...
My relationship with my belief has never been easy.
Your beliefs set your limits.
Cherish your doubts, for doubt is the handmaiden of truth. Doubt is the key to the door of knowledge; it is the servant of discovery. A belief which may not be questioned binds us to error, for there is incompleteness and imperfection in every belief...
The best way in the world to deceive believers is to cloak a message in religious language and declare that it conveys some new insight from God.
I was a very religious kid. I was raised as an Episcopalian.
If you're religious, it gives you a perspective.
I tend not to make fun of religious groups anywhere I play.
I'm a religious fanatic? Yes, I am, actually.
America is an unusually religious nation.
I grew up very religious, and I don't have a great relationship with religion.
We no longer claim that a genuinely religious government can be democratic, but that it cannot be otherwise.
By respect for life we become religious in a way that is elementary, profound and alive.
I would call myself more spiritual than religious.
The Bible sits on the pulpit of hundreds of different religious sects.
I don't let my religious world get too complicated.
I've been a religious, spiritual person for a long time.
Divorce these days is a religious vow, as if the proper offspring of marriage.
We've never been a religious band, but the media wants us to be.
