Avenues Quote by Huston Smith Download Open image “...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.” — Huston Smith ★ ★ ★ ★ ★ 4.2 out of 5 (5 ratings) Copy quoteShare Avenues Destination Different Sanctity
Let sannyas be the turning point. That's what sannyas is all about: a return journey. One starts moving inwards rather than moving outwards. — Rajneesh Copy Share Image
Let us accept all the different paths as different rivers running toward the same ocean. — Swami Satchidananda Copy Share Image
The good thing about being in San Francisco is it's a city that seems to have the flexibility and undefined boundaries. — Janet Varney Copy Share Image
All roads lead to Rome, but our antagonists think we should choose different paths. — Jean de La Fontaine Copy Share Image
“Avenues with no obstacles seldom lead anywhere, yet paths to serenity are everywhere.” — Sandra Hookham Copy Share Image
It is time to extend planning to a wider field, in this instance comprehending in one great project many states directly concerned with the… — Franklin D. Roosevelt Copy Share Image
Allowing for suburbanization of California's ranches and farmlands would still allow for strong protections of California's truly natural areas like Yosemite, the redwoods, and… — Michael Shellenberger Copy Share Image
All roads indeed lead to Rome, but theirs also is a more mystical destination, some bourne of which no traveller knows the name, some… — Richard Le Gallienne Copy Share Image
Migration isn't a one-directional process; it's a colossal process that has been happening in all directions for thousands of years. — Mohsin Hamid 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 the dispute would be only one of words*. But besides the fact that most philosophers have taken the term in almost the same fashion, distinguishing between a unity in itself and an accidental unity, between substantial… — Huston Smith Copy Share
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 capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity. How deep does New Age go? Has it come to terms with radical evil? More, I am not sure… — Huston Smith Copy Share
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 to size which, being an aspect of space, belongs to our plane only. (We discount as irrelevant for present purposes the peculiar modes of space we experience when dreaming.) The entire size-continuum, from minutest particle to… — Huston Smith Copy Share
Faith is the avenue to salvation. Not intellectual understanding. Not money. Not your works. Just simple faith. How much faith? The faith of a… — Billy Graham Copy Share Image
I don't look at money as success. I look at it as an avenue to freedom. — Scooter Braun Copy Share Image
Extemporaneous speaking should be practised and cultivated. It is the lawyer's avenue to the public… — Abraham Lincoln Copy Share Image
In times of totalitarian or autocratic rule, music (indeed culture in general) is often the only avenue of independent thought. It is the only… — Daniel Barenboim Copy Share Image
At length weariness succeeds to labor, and the mind lies at ease in the contemplation of her own attainments without any desire of new conquests or excursions. This is the age of recollection and narrative; the opinions are settled, and the avenues of apprehension shut against any new intelligence; the days that are to follow must pass in the inculcation… — Samuel Johnson Copy Share
Some writers are writing one great, big book and just taking all these different avenues towards it. They might seem on the outside to be different, but they're really not. And that's a different kind of mindset. I don't know why it is, but I just feel like I really want to escape myself as much as I can -… — Chang-Rae Lee Copy Share
Once upon a time I was riding on the top of a First Avenue bus, when I heard a mythical housewife say to another,… — David Ogilvy Copy Share Image
Nearly all literature, in one sense, is made up of guide-books. Old ones tell us the ways our fathers went, through the thoroughfares and… — Herman Melville Copy Share Image
It is best to lay our plans widely in youth, for then land is cheap, and it is but too easy to contract our views afterward. Youths so laid out, with broad avenues and parks, that they may make handsome and liberal old men! Show me a youth whose mind is like some Washington city of magnificent distances, prepared for… — Henry David Thoreau Copy Share
I have had a hard time settling on one medium and feel like a dilettante at times, taking up one medium and then wanting… — Nancy Johnson Copy Share Image
The philosophy that I have worked under most of my life is that the serious study of natural history is an activity which has… — Roger Tory Peterson Copy Share Image
There are certainly numberless women of fashion who consider it perfectly natural to go miles down Fifth Avenue, or Madison Avenue, yet for whom… — Jules Romains Copy Share Image