Most mystics do not want to read religious wisdom; they want to be it. A postcard of a … - Huston Smith

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Huston Smith

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.

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The most powerful moral influence is example.

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If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.

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After his great awakening, the Buddha continued to meditate and to devote himself to others; otherwise his vision would have receded into a pleasant memory.

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I don't want to justify religion in terms of its benefits to us. I believe that, on balance, it does a lot of bad things, too - a tremendous amount. But I don't think that the final justification of religion is the good it does for people. I think the final justification is that it's true, and truth takes priority over consequences. Religion helps us deal with what is most important to the human spirit: values, meaning, purpose, and quality.

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We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

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