Huston Smith Quotes
Top 56 wise famous quotes and sayings by Huston Smith
Huston Smith Famous Quotes & Sayings
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It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
In the post-individualistic era, science and spirituality will become allies, and human beings will realize a vast potentiality now only dimly felt.
Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.
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.
As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.
Without attention, the human sense of wonder and the holy will stir occasionally, but to become a steady flame it must be tended.
Among the languages of American Indians there is no word for 'art,' because for Indians everything is art.
Such power as I possess for working in the political field has derived from my experiments in the spiritual field.
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
Primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.
No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.
Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.
The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.
If we take the world's enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.
We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.