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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.”

Quote by Huston Smith

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Huston Smith, an American religious philosopher, was born on May 31, 1919, and passed away on December 30, 2016. He is renowned for his extensive research on world religions and has authored classic works such as 'The World's Religions,' which has had a profound impact on global religious culture. more

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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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Book:The Huston Smith Reader

Source: The Huston Smith Reader

“Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a beautiful lake is not a beautiful lake, and Sufis may be defined as those who dance in the lake.”

Want May Beautiful Religious Defined Lakes Sufi Postcards

Book:The Huston Smith Reader

Source: The Huston Smith Reader

“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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Author:Huston Smith

“...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.”

People World Objects This World Divine Source Window Primal

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

Different Destination Avenues Sanctity

Book:The Huston Smith Reader

Source: The Huston Smith Reader

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

Action Consequence Our Actions Consequences Of Our Actions

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“Modern science agrees that the universe consists of vibrations, but sound is more than vibration. Distinct from white noise, sound is vibrations in harmonic proportions, and from the billions of vibrations that are possible, the universe shows a startling, overwhelming preference for the few thousand that make harmonic sense.This is because the One, from which all things issue, is beautiful.”

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Author:Huston Smith

“Those who seek to impress upon us that they are gentlemen will usually be found mistaken.”

Found Gentleman Impress Mistaken

Book:A year with Bisshe-Bantam

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“Children teach you that you can still be humbled by life, that you learn something new all the time. That's the secret to life, really: never stop learning. It's the secret to career. I'm still working because I learn something new all the time. It's the secret to relationships. Never think you've got it all.”

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“I like to direct the same way that I like to be directed.”

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