Huston Smith Quotes
Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
I don't have any fear of death. I do, however, have an inordinate fear of becoming dependent on other people. To me, that's the severest test, not death.
Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s poetry is really remarkable.
I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.
Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.
Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.
Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them.
We all carry it within us: supreme strength the fullness of wisdom unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted and cannot be destroyed.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
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