So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The faith I was born into formed me. I come from a missionary family - I grew up in China - and… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
the heart of religion is not altered states but altered traits of character. For me, then, the test of a substance's religious… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is… — 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
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
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
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
