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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.

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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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Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.
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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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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.
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Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
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God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.
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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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Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.
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God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.
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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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...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.
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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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The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.
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What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.
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In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.
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As known unknowns become known unknown unknowns proliferate the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
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It must have been providence that directed Joel Morwood to dig in the right place, for he struck a lode of pure gold, as wide (comprehensive) as it is deep (profound). What he mined from that lode is a spiritual treasure.
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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.
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If you are drilling for water, it's better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 6-foot wells.
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Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs may produce religious experiences. ...it is far less clear that they can produce religious lives.
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