Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is w…

Huston Smith
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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. ✨ The World of Religion According to Huston Smith. Interview with Marilyn Berlin Snell, www.motherjones.com. November 1997.
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