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The faith I was born into formed me.

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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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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 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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Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.
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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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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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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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If you are drilling for water, it's better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 6-foot wells.
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The notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.
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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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As known unknowns become known unknown unknowns proliferate the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
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After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.
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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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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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So always, if we look back, concern for face-to-face morality, and its modern emphasis on justice as well, have historically evolved as religious issues.
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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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...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.
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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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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
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