Modernity sees humanity as having ascended from what is inferior to it - life begins in slime and ends in intelligence -… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
There are wonderfully intrinsic moments when life makes sense, and doubts are banished as irrelevant in those moments. Of course, we can't… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The scientific method is nearly perfect for understanding the physical aspects of our life. But it is a radically limited viewfinder in… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on… — 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
“Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Plato described ordinary life as unthinking, lived in a dim cave of shadowy reflections, but said that it is possible to leave… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming," To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Our life in historical or chronological time, measuring and minding, cautious and comparing, forms the horizontal arm of the cross. Our experience… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“What a strange fellowship this is, the God seekers in every land, lifting their voices in the most disparate ways imaginable to… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage… — 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
