The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source. — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge,… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy,… — 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
Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the… — Huston Smith Copy Share Image
The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something… — 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
“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
