Huston Smith

The faith I was born into formed me.

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God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

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We are a blend of dust and divinity.

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The most powerful moral influence is example.

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All -isms end up in schisms.

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Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.

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It would be good if we bore one another's burdens.

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The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.

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...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

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I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

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In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.

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...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.

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“We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master.”

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God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.

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...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.

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“Conversely, every act done without thought for myself diminishes my self-centeredness until finally no barrier remains to separate me from the Divine.”

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“Such power as I possess for working in the political field has derived from my experiments in the spiritual field.”

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First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community,…

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“Your reasoning is fine, but your experience is limited. Enlarge your experience, and your philosophy will be different.”

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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is…

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Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the…

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The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage…

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It must have been providence that directed Joel Morwood to dig in the right place, for he struck a lode of pure…

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People are not losing their religious needs, but they are going to three places to get their needs met. One is to…

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I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any…

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“The Infinite discloses itself, as much of itself as our finite minds can comprehend, by building the universal grammars of language and…

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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to…

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“God has made different religions to suit different aspirations, times, and countries. All doctrines are only so many paths; but a path…

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A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the…

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'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today…

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In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge,…

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“Never during its pilgrimage is the human spirit completely adrift and alone. From start to finish its nucleus is the Atman, the…

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Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the…

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“Our life in historical or chronological time, measuring and minding, cautious and comparing, forms the horizontal arm of the cross. Our experience…

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“If my opinion that substance requires a true unity were founded only on a definition I had formulated in opposition to common…

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...yesterday and today and tomorrow are not an arrow that shoots from past to present to future; rather all tenses, and sleeping…

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Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of…

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“The scientific gauge is quantity: space, size, and strength of forces can all be reckoned numerically. The comparable "yardstick" in the traditional…

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Ancient wisdom and quantum physicists make unlikely bedfellows: In quantum mechanics the observer determines (or even brings into being) what is observed,…

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Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.

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