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“Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality.”

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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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“Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.”

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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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“Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.”

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Book:The Huston Smith Reader

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“First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.”

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Book:The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life

Source: The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life

“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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Source: The Huston Smith Reader

“Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.”

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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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Book:Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief

Source: Why Religion Matters: The Fate of the Human Spirit in an Age of Disbelief

“Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.”

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“The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits”

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“When historians look back on our century, they may remember it most, not for space travel or the release of nuclear energy, but as the time when the peoples of the world first came to take one another seriously.”

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Book:The World's Religions, Revised and Updated: A Concise Introduction

Source: The World's Religions, Revised and Updated: A Concise Introduction