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"Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation."

— Huston Smith

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81 Quotes by Huston Smith

Huston Smith has 81 quotes on this site. A few more worth reading:

I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat…
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…
We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot…
One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin…
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,…
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,…
Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that…

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The earth is the very quintessence of the human condition. — Hannah Arendt
It suddenly struck me that that tiny pea, pretty and blue, was the Earth. I put up my thumb and… — Neil Armstrong
Here men from the planet Earth first set foot upon the Moon. July 1969 AD. We came in peace for… — Neil Armstrong
I put up my thumb and it blotted out the planet Earth. — Neil Armstrong
It's a brilliant surface in that sunlight. The horizon seems quite close to you because the curvature is so much… — Neil Armstrong
I'd never heard of the 'Lord of the Rings', actually. So I went to the bookstore and there it was,… — Sean Astin
Science and fiction both begin with similar questions: What if? Why? How does it all work? But they focus on… — Margaret Atwood
We are all here on earth to help others; what on earth the others are here for I don't know. — Wystan Hugh Auden
God had one son on earth without sin, but never one without suffering. — Saint Augustine
What springs from earth dissolves to earth again, and heaven-born things fly to their native seat. — Marcus Aurelius
Here is the test to find whether your mission on Earth is finished: if you're alive, it isn't. — Richard Bach
Carbon dioxide is natural. It is not harmful. It is part of Earth's life cycle. — Michele Bachmann

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