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In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.

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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
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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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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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Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.
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We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.
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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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Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
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The faith I was born into formed me.
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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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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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...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.
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God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.
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The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies.
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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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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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It would be good if we bore one another's burdens.
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I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.
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The object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation – to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
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The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits
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