Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but… — 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
Seen through the eyes of faith, religion's future is secure. As long as there are human beings, there will be religion for… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
“God has made different religions to suit different aspirations, times, and countries. All doctrines are only so many paths; but a path… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
In India there was a sense of time that does not tick with modern clocks, just as there is a knowledge that… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
...yesterday and today and tomorrow are not an arrow that shoots from past to present to future; rather all tenses, and sleeping… — 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
Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly… — 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
