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Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.

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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
West
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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 would not say that ethical behavior is not possible for the atheist or agnostic. It is. A couple of pretty good examples are Bertrand Russell and Jean-Paul Sartre. However, I will have to say that if we take the human lot as a whole, these two men must be seen as exceptions.
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the barren canyon walls. And the mute desert seemed to carry on our conversation for us.
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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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As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
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Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.
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...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.
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If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on the other, must yield to a new vision that connects us with everything else and leads us to care for and take responsibility for it.
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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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What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.
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