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Huston Smith quotes: It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us. It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
Huston Smith quotes: Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home. Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.
Huston Smith quotes: God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just. God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.
Huston Smith quotes: Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province. Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.
Huston Smith quotes: The single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it. The single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.
Huston Smith quotes: You can never get enough of what you don't really want. You can never get enough of what you don't really want.
Huston Smith quotes: Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us. Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.
Huston Smith quotes: Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West. Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.
Huston Smith quotes: In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt. In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.
Huston Smith quotes: I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
Huston Smith quotes: Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection. Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.
Huston Smith quotes: God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus. God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.
Huston Smith quotes: The most powerful moral influence is example. The most powerful moral influence is example.
Huston Smith quotes: 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. 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.
Huston Smith quotes: As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves. As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
Huston Smith quotes: When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade. When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
Huston Smith quotes: I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience. I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.
Huston Smith quotes: Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite. Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
Huston Smith quotes: It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry. It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.
Huston Smith quotes: The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it. The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.
Huston Smith quotes: Without attention, the human sense of wonder and the holy will stir occasionally, but to become a steady flame it must be tended. Without attention, the human sense of wonder and the holy will stir occasionally, but to become a steady flame it must be tended.
Huston Smith quotes: Among the languages of American Indians there is no word for 'art,' because for Indians everything is art. Among the languages of American Indians there is no word for 'art,' because for Indians everything is art.
Huston Smith quotes: Such power as I possess for working in the political field has derived from my experiments in the spiritual field. Such power as I possess for working in the political field has derived from my experiments in the spiritual field.
Huston Smith quotes: The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits
Huston Smith quotes: The only thing that continues is the consequences of our action. The only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.
Huston Smith quotes: You can't understand anything unless you unless you understand everything. You can't understand anything unless you unless you understand everything.
Huston Smith quotes: The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Huston Smith quotes: The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm. The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.
Huston Smith quotes: Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self. Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.
Huston Smith quotes: But with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'. But with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.
Huston Smith quotes: Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light? Might we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?
Huston Smith quotes: Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany. Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.
Huston Smith quotes: sharpened edge of a razor, hard to traverse, A difficult path is this - the poets declare!2 Science sharpened edge of a razor, hard to traverse, A difficult path is this - the poets declare!2 Science
Huston Smith quotes: Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
Huston Smith quotes: Primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source. Primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.
Huston Smith quotes: All -isms end up in schisms. All -isms end up in schisms.
Huston Smith quotes: No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have. No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.
Huston Smith quotes: Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it. Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.
Huston Smith quotes: Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times. Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.
Huston Smith quotes: In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
Huston Smith quotes: The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world. The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.
Huston Smith quotes: We are a blend of dust and divinity. We are a blend of dust and divinity.
Huston Smith quotes: If we take the world's enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race. If we take the world's enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.
Huston Smith quotes: You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left. You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.
Huston Smith quotes: Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn. Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
Huston Smith quotes: The faith I was born into formed me. The faith I was born into formed me.
Huston Smith quotes: We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed. We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
Huston Smith quotes: Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation. Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.
Huston Smith quotes: We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery. We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.
Huston Smith quotes: Historical figures lose their center when they become anxious over the outcome of their actions. Historical figures lose their center when they become anxious over the outcome of their actions.
Huston Smith quotes: In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives. In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.
Huston Smith quotes: The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned. The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.
Huston Smith quotes: Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
Huston Smith quotes: When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states. When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
Huston Smith quotes: To find meaning in the mystery of existence is life's final and fascinating challenge. To find meaning in the mystery of existence is life's final and fascinating challenge.
Huston Smith quotes: I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form. I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.

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