What is a religious experience like?

A Facebook friend wrote this week that she was touring the Amsterdam museum this week and likened it to a religious experience.  I found that line fascinating and looked it up;  "Religious experiences can be characterized generally as experiences that seem to the person having them to be of some objective reality and to have some religious import."   The concept is vague and there are many experiences that might fall into this category, depending on one's personal definition.   Most people have trouble thinking about religious experiences taken out of the context of a religious structure or setting.

So what do I put into this category for me.  If anything!  Removing the church buildings itself from this category!  I find it in the music of the old hymns--I despise the stuff they bring in now and find it stifling to my religious experience --but I can hear the hymns and an organ and I feel an interior joy and peace.  I can find religious experience in the simple kindness of others and courtesy because I try to continue to live in Christian traditions of "Do unto others..."    I find peace and joy as I watch all around me cope with physical problems and they press on...not looking back!

I find peace in living each day that God gives me!  Van Gogh Art Museum