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God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.

Huston Smith

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Huston Smith
Age: 97 †
Born: 1919
Born: May 31
Died: 2016
Died: December 30
Philosopher
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Huston Cummings Smith
Jesus
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God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.
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I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.
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I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.
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I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.
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What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.
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Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.
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Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
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I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.
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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
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When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
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The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.
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