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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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Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.
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My body was born into the - baptized in the Methodist church, and it will be buried in the Methodist Church. Meanwhile, I have a soul. And my soul cannot be confined to any human institution.
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Reserved as he [Confucius] was about the supernatural, he was not without it somewhere in the universe there was a power that was on the side of right.
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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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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
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Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.
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I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.
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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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I had assumed that Bush's seemingly inflexible policy to support Sharon was for political reasons of his getting elected. But as to whether he really believes his actions are going to hasten the day of the final conflict, I do not know.
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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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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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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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Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.
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