"Water is patient; it can stagnate and let……" — Huston Smith
"Water is patient; it can stagnate and let itself be coated with scum if need be. It is as gentle as the morning's dew. It is non-confrontational, even respectful, in circumventing the rocks in a stream. It makes room for everything that enters its pools. It accommodates by assuming the shape of any vessel it is poured into. And it is humble, seeking always the lowest level. Yet along with - or rather because of these adaptive, yielding properties, it is ultimately irresistible; it carves canyons out of stone."
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81 Quotes by Huston Smith
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat…
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
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In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only…
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot…
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One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin…
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Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
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Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful,…
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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
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Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art,…
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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that…
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To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now.
— Samuel Beckett
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The field is a halfway house, halfway between the detail of those intimately known places and the ignorance of a…
— Adam Nicolson
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It is an interesting law of romance that a truly strong woman will choose a strong man who disagrees with…
— Roger Ebert
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My sister accommodates me, never reproaches me with her doctrine, never tries to change me. She accepts and loves me,…
— Joy Harjo
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A man who is furnished with arguments from the mint, will convince his antagonist much sooner than one who draws…
— Joseph Addison
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The cast, staff, and crew of a live theater work together toward a common goal: a good performance. Thus, theater…
— Laurence Sterne
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A good designer can create a design that accommodates all the constraints and still delivers an elegant, satisfying experience to…
— Jesse James Garrett
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The real security of Christianity is to be found in its benevolent morality, in its exquisite adaptation to the human…
— Thomas B. Macaulay
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A manure containing several ingredients acts in this wise: The effect of all of them in the soil accommodates itself…
— Justus von Liebig
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Now, since our condition accommodates things to itself, and transforms them according to itself, we no longer know things in…
— Michel de Montaigne
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A vain man can never be utterly ruthless: he wants to win applause and therefore he accommodates himself to others
— Johann Wolfgang von Goethe
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History shows that when the church accommodates culture, it weakens it.
— Rick Warren
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