Such evil deeds could religion prompt.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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Mihaly Robert Csikszentmihalyi (29 September 1934 – 20 October 2021) was a Hungarian-American psychologist. He recognized and named the psychological concept of "flow", a highly focused mental state conducive to creativity. He was the Distinguished Professor of Psychology and Management at Claremont Graduate University. Earlier, he served as the head...

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People who learn to control inner experience will be able to determine the quality of their lives, which is as close as any of us can come to being happy.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

As long as we respond predictably to what feels good and what feels bad, it is easy for others to exploit our preferences for their own ends.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

There are two main strategies we can adopt to improve the quality of life. The first is to try making external conditions match our goals. The second is to change how we experience external conditions to make them fit our goals better.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

It does not seem to be true that work necessarily needs to be unpleasant. It may always have to be hard, or at least harder than doing nothing at all. But there is ample evidence that work can be enjoyable, and that indeed, it is often the most enjoyable part of life.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

People without an internalized symbolic system can all too easily become captives of the media.

—Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi

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It will, I believe, be everywhere found, that as the clergy are, or are not what they ought to be, so are the rest of the nation.

—Matthew Arnold

Everybody likes to go their own way—to choose their own time and manner of devotion.

I've often thought the Bible should have a disclaimer in the front saying this is fiction.

For centuries, theologians have been explaining the unknowable in terms of the-not-worth-knowing.

—James Feibleman

The secret of a good sermon is to have a good beginning and a good ending, then having the two as close together as possible.

—Ian McKellen

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