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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
Huston Smith
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Huston Smith
Age: 97 †
Born: 1919
Born: May 31
Died: 2016
Died: December 30
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Huston Cummings Smith
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'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals an astute insight into egotism, about how those with swollen pride or vanity cannot see anything larger than themselves.
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First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.
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A nation can assume that the addition of the words under God to its pledge of allegiance gives evidence that its citizens actually believe in God whereas all it really proves is that they believe in believing in God
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With mind distracted, never thinking, Death is coming, To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life, And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116) trans by Robert Thurman
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Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.
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The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.
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I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.
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Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.
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What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.
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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
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Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.
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In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.
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It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.
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God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.
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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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Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.
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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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The faith I was born into formed me.
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The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits
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