It is religion, the inquiry into the beyond that makes the difference between a man and an animal  Swami Vivekananda    The bee culling honey from many flowers remains free, not bound by any flower, be not bound.... Enter not the door of any organised religion Swami Vivekananda    The search for truth is true religion, and the man who is seeking truth is the only religious man  Swami Vivekananda    Do you know what religion is ? It is not in the chant, it is not in the performance of the pooja, or any other ritual , it is not in the worship of tin gods or stone images, it is not in the temples and churches, it is not in the reading of the Bible or the Gita, it is not in the repeating of sacred names or in the following of some other superstition invented by man. None of this is religion  J.Krishnamurthi    Religion is the feeling of goodness, that love which is like river, living, moving  everlastingly  J.Krishnamurthi    All religion is going beyond reason, but reason is the only way to get there  Swami Vivekananda    Real religion, the highest, rises above mythology; it can never rest upon that  Swami Vivekananda    Religious teaching must always be constructive, not destructive  Swami Vivekananda    No scriptures can make us religious. We may study all the books that are in the world, yet we may not understand a word of religion or God  Swami Vivekananda    It is in love that religion exists and not in ceremony- in the pure and sincere love in the heart  Swami Vivekananda    Vedanta recognises no sin. It recognises only error  Swami Vivekananda    The waves of religious thought rise and fall and on the topmost one stands the 'prophet of the period'. Generally speaking, human religion begins with fear  Swami Vivekananda    Religion without philosophy runs into superstition; philosophy without religion becomes dry atheism  Swami Vivekananda    Priests are an evil in every country because they denounce and criticize pulling at one string to mend it until two are three others are out of place Swami Vivekananda    True religion possesses two important limbs, namely, its philosophy and its ritualistic injunctions. Mere ritualism, bereft of philosophy is only superstition, while bare philosophy without ritualistic practices  tantamounts to madness  Swamy Chinmayananda    Religion belongs to the higher mind of humanity. It is the effort of human mind to approach, as far as lies in its power, something beyond it, something to which humanity gives the name of God or Spirit or Truth or Faith Or Knowledge or the Infinite, some kind of Absolute, which the human mind cannot reach and yet tries to reach  The Mother(Mirra)    The articles and dogmas of a religion are mind- made things and if you cling to them and shut yourself up in a code made for you, you do not and cannot know the truth of the Spirit that lies beyond all codes and dogmas, wide and large and free  The Mother(Mirra)    God gives Himself to His whole creation; no one religion holds the monopoly of His Grace The Mother(Mirra)