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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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Soochow
Huston Cummings Smith
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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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It would be good if we bore one another's burdens.
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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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I've spent the last 50 years or so steeping myself in the world's religions, and I've done my homework. I've gone to each of the world's eight great religions and sought out the most profound scholars I could find, and I've apprenticed myself to them and actually practiced each faith.
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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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As known unknowns become known unknown unknowns proliferate the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
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Entheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs may produce religious experiences. ...it is far less clear that they can produce religious lives.
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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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Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
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The faith I was born into formed me.
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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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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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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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Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.
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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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I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.
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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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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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