“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
“The only power that can effect transformations of the order (of Jesus) is love. It remained for the 20th century to discover… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Historically, religion has given people another world to live in, a world more adaptive to the human spirit. As a student of… — 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
Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and in my case, my religious upbringing was positive.… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
A religion made up solely of heightened religious experiences would not be a religion at all. ...The major religious traditions address the… — 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
It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
As the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities?… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
People are not losing their religious needs, but they are going to three places to get their needs met. One is to… — 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
The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities?… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs… — 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
