Huston Smith Quotes

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• I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the…
• Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
• In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.
• We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
• One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is probably right in…
• Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
• In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
• When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
• Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is…
• Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
• Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere.
• Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us.…
• First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn…
• So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.
• Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
• The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular…
• Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the…
• The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits
• When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy, but as the…
• The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw…

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