I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolut…

Huston Smith
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the barren canyon walls. And the mute desert seemed to carry on our conversation for us.
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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them. ✨ Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). The Huston Smith Reader, p.43, Univ of … ▶
I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form. ✨ Huston Smith: Rock star of religions turns 90 by Heidi Benson, www.sfgate.com … ▶
If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.
One reason education undoes belief is its teaching of evolution; Darwin's own drift from orthodoxy to agnosticism was symptomatic. Martin Lings is probably right in saying that more cases of loss of … ▶
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I simply wanted to experience the presence of this man who had revolutionized my understanding. After a while we sat in silence, gazing at the barren canyon walls. And the mute desert seemed to carry on our conversation for us.

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