“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.” HumansKindLife IsJoyReligiousPromiseOvercomingDifficultyPainfulPeculiarHappy EndingsOrdealsReligious Life 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
“I think what happens in a religious life is that we have those experiences of affirmation and that one starts to live a Christian life or a Jewish life or a Muslim life or a Buddhist life, by affirming that affirmation each day. Each day you say 'Yes' to that Yes. So the life of being a Christian for example, is always a life of double affirmation, that you each day say 'Yes' to those counter-experiences of saying 'Yes', even when you're not experiencing them at that time, you're remaining loyal to that experience.” ThinkingHappensChristianLife IsReligiousExampleChristian LifeBuddhistEach DayLoyalAffirmationAffirmingSaying YesReligious LifeBuddhist LifeJewish Life Author:Kevin Hart