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Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.

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Huston Smith
Age: 97 †
Born: 1919
Born: May 31
Died: 2016
Died: December 30
Philosopher
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Soochow
Huston Cummings Smith
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Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.
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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 first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.
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God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. Its the same in religion.
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I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.
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God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.
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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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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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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 Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.
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...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.
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What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past infinite service to all things present infinite responsibility to all things future.
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Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the only way to put it. But it's my way. So the kernels are the same. However, the shells are different.
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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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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.
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The faith I was born into formed me.
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...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.
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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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Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
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