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A priest once quoted to me the Roman saying that a religion is dead when the priests laugh at each other across the altar. I always laugh at the altar, be it Christian, Hindu, or Buddhist, because real religion is the transformation of anxiety into laughter.

Alan Watts
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Love is the essence of all religion, mysticism, and philosophy, and for the one who has learned this, love fulfills the purpose of religion, ethics, and philosophy, and the lover is raised above all diversities of faiths and beliefs.

Hazrat Inayat Khan
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In modern society most of us don't want to be in touch with ourselves; we want to be in touch with other things like religion, sports, politics, a book - we want to forget ourselves. Anytime we have leisure, we want to invite something else to enter us, opening ourselves to the television and telling the television to come and colonize us.

Thích Nhất Hạnh
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Faith is a state of openness or trust...In other words, a person who is fanatic in matters of religion, and clings to certain ideas about the nature of God and the universe, becomes a person who has no faith at all. Instead they are holding tight. But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to the truth, whatever it might turn out to be.

Shunryu Suzuki
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I have felt that the Gita teaches us that what cannot be followed in day-to-day practice cannot be called religion.

Mahatma Gandhi
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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.

Ram Dass
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Every religion teaches how to achieve calmness, the ultimate goal of all religions. This calm is possible when one is completely united with God.

Paramahamsa Hariharananda
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In pluralistic, democratic societies, there is the freedom to adopt the religion of your choice. This is good. This lets curious people like you run around on the loose!

Dalai Lama
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All religions are essentially the same in their goal of developing a good human heart so that we may become better human beings.

Dalai Lama
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All religions are the same, they all lead to God. God is everybody... The same blood flows through us all, the arms, the legs, the heart, all are the same. See no difference, see all the same.

Neem Karoli Baba
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