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...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.

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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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As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
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We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.
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Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
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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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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits
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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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When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
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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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As known unknowns become known unknown unknowns proliferate the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
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God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.
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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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Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.
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In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.
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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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Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.
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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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Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.
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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
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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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