At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome. — 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 may produce religious experiences. ...it is far less clear that they can produce religious lives. — 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
