Huston Smith

Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we…

— Huston Smith

“Do not seek after truth. Merely cease to hold opinions.”

— Huston Smith

Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.

— Huston Smith

No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I…

— Huston Smith

When the scientific method came into being, it gave us a new window on the truth; namely, a method by laboratory-controlled experiments…

— Huston Smith

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

Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.

— Huston Smith

In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.

— Huston Smith

“Heaven and earth are my inner and outer coffins. The sun, moon, and stars are my drapery, and the whole creation my…

— Huston Smith

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature.…

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I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me,…

— Huston Smith

It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.

— Huston Smith

“Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?”

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Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not…

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“You can never get enough of what you don't really want.”

— Huston Smith

Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.

— Huston Smith

“Such power as I possess for working in the political field has derived from my experiments in the spiritual field.”

— Huston Smith

“God has made different religions to suit different aspirations, times, and countries. All doctrines are only so many paths; but a path…

— Huston Smith

Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to…

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After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into…

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If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on…

— Huston Smith

I am critical of modernity giving science and technology a blank check as if it were the fountain of all truth. That…

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“I am become death, the shatterer of worlds; Waiting that hour that ripens to their doom. This”

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If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

— Huston Smith

'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today…

— Huston Smith