“You can find God in the world of everyday affairs as readily as anywhere.11” — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I happen to be a Christian. I was brought up and drenched in that. I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
...like a magnetic compass turning north, I always tried to head in the direction of the better, which is the direction to… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“The Transcendent was my morning meal, we had the Eternal at lunch, and I ate a slice of the Infinite at dinner.” — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
A nation can assume that the addition of the words "under God" to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Some friends accused me of whoring after the Infinite. Well, what better whoredom is there?” — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“If my opinion that substance requires a true unity were founded only on a definition I had formulated in opposition to common usage, *then… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“How many planes there are, we do not know. The levels of nature that science discriminates give us no clue, for these all pertain… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image