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...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.

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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
Thing
Continues
Consequences
Consequence
Action

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The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits
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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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When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
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I'm not a chauvinist. I'm a universalist. I think that God imploded, like a spiritual big bang, to launch the eight civilizations that make up recorded history and the religions in those civilizations.
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In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.
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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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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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God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.
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Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.
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Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.
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'Blessed are the poor in spirit, for they shall see God' suggested to me a heavenly welfare program for the meek. Today that saying reveals an astute insight into egotism, about how those with swollen pride or vanity cannot see anything larger than themselves.
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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 self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.
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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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At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome.
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I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.
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When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
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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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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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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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