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| Link | Quote | Stars | Tags | Author |
| f36cb74 | In the words of a Zen poem, At dusk the cock announces dawn; At midnight, the bright sun. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 2b33000 | Religion is the organized attempt to understand spiritual experience, to interpret it with words and concepts, and to use this interpretation as the source of moral guidelines for the religious community. | Fritjof Capra | ||
| 3f3e831 | since people who "discovered" bodies in odd places were often the people who had put them there in the first place." -- | Laurie R. King | ||
| f66b838 | He who does the task Dictated by duty, Caring nothing For the fruit of the action, He is a yogi. (Bhagavad-Gita, VI:I) Hence | Huston Smith | ||
| be3784d | It makes her rather alarming," I said. "Sincerity has that effect," said Miss Marple. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 27e8265 | there, so Jobs left a message asking him to come to dinner the following evening. He would also invite the | Walter Isaacson | ||
| d2520d3 | Dismiss these post facto accounts as legends if we must; there is no question but that in his life as the Buddha the springs of tenderness gushed abundant. Wanting to draw the arrows of sorrow from everyone he met, he gave to each his sympathy, his enlightenment, and the strange power of soul, which, even when he barely spoke a word, gripped the hearts of his visitors and left them transformed. | Huston Smith | ||
| fa24abd | The ultimate truth is that nirvana is not infinitely distant but infinitely near, reaching gracefully toward us, as it were, and being the ground on which we already stand if we but knew this. Only the blinders of egoism hide this truth from us. | Huston Smith | ||
| d67a43b | Your reasoning is fine, but your experience is limited. Enlarge your experience, and your philosophy will be different. | Huston Smith | ||
| a9684bb | And it was from a Hindu, Swami Satprakashananda with his Christmas talks on "Jesus Christ, the Son of God," that I received the strongest confirmation--by an outside examiner, as it were--of Jesus's divine nature." -- | Huston Smith | ||
| 7a98455 | sharpened edge of a razor, hard to traverse, A difficult path is this--the poets declare!2 Science | Huston Smith | ||
| 6ab4be9 | A sharpened edge of a razor, hard to traverse, A difficult path is this--the poets declare!2 Science | Huston Smith | ||
| 8864580 | III. Buddhism The Man Who Woke Up Buddhism begins with a man. In his later years, when India was afire with his message and kings themselves were bowing before him, people came to him even as they were to come to Jesus asking what he was.1 How many people have provoked this question--not "Who are you?" with respect to name, origin, or ancestry, but "What are you? What order of being do you belong to? What species do you represent?" Not Caes.. | Huston Smith | ||
| 18a6b38 | And is it true? And is it true, This most tremendous tale of all... That God was Man in Palestine And lives today in Bread and Wine. (John Betjeman, Christman) | Huston Smith | ||
| 33c2783 | God has made different religions to suit different aspirations, times, and countries. All doctrines are only so many paths; but a path is by no means God Himself. Indeed, one can reach God if one follows any of the paths with whole-hearted devotion. | Huston Smith | ||
| 6518c5c | For all we know, the larger part of the motive for trying to expand science is not self-serving; it is merely mistaken. The idealistic element in it is its desire to achieve in the understanding of man what science has achieved in the understanding of matter. Its mistake is in not seeing that the tools for the one are of strictly limited utility for the other, and that the practice of trying to see man as an object which the tools of scienc.. | Huston Smith | ||
| f17480f | For "what the soul is to the body of man," Saint Augustine was to write, "that the Holy Spirit is to the Body of Christ, which is the Church." | Huston Smith | ||
| bbd16fa | I am become death, the shatterer of worlds; Waiting that hour that ripens to their doom. This | Huston Smith | ||
| 132e43e | We need the courage as well as the inclination to consult, and profit from, the "wisdom traditions of mankind." --E.F. Schumacher In" | Huston Smith | ||
| f93f0ab | Miss Marple twinkled at me. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 016bb53 | He renamed India's untouchables harijan, "God's people," and raised them to human stature. And in doing so he provided the nonviolent strategy as well as the inspiration for Martin Luther King, Jr.'s comparable civil rights movement in the United States. Gandhi" | Huston Smith | ||
| 5c10172 | You can find God in the world of everyday affairs as readily as anywhere.11 | Huston Smith | ||
| 9f68baf | Derived from the root s-l-m, which means primarily "peace" but in a secondary sense "surrender," its full connotation is "the peace that comes when one's life is surrendered to God." This makes Islam--together with Buddhism, from budh, awakening--one of the two religions that is named after the attribute it seeks to cultivate; in Islam's case, life's total surrender to God. Those who adhere to Islam are known as Muslims. Background" | Huston Smith | ||
| 0e5c2b1 | Everything I do for my private wellbeing adds another layer to my ego, and in thickening it insulates me more from God. | Huston Smith | ||
| f5b012e | Conversely, every act done without thought for myself diminishes my self-centeredness until finally no barrier remains to separate me from the Divine. | Huston Smith | ||
| ef6f6d8 | And Americans were--before the Vietnam War, before the Iraq wars--the darlings of everyone everywhere. On a second world trip a decade later, on which I took students for academic credit, the most treasured gift we could give was a John F. Kennedy half-dollar. There | Huston Smith | ||
| be76d9a | Weapons are the tools of violence; all decent men detest them. Weapons are the tools of fear; a decent man will avoid them except in the direst necessity and, if compelled, will use them only with the utmost restraint. Peace is the highest value.... He enters a battle gravely, with sorrow and with great compassion, as if he were attending a funeral. (ch. 31) That | Huston Smith | ||
| 5cdeb1e | A nation can assume that the phrase "under God" in its Pledge of Allegiance shows that its citizens believe in God when all it really shows is that they believe in believing in God." | Huston Smith | ||
| 118a6f1 | Renaissance men who knew something about everything that was to be known disappeared several centuries ago. Students now face a plethora of compartmentalized fields of knowledge. Uninstructed as to how they connect, students are given no sense of the whole, if indeed their instructors think a seamless fabric of knowledge exists. | Huston Smith | ||
| fed23eb | The Infinite discloses itself, as much of itself as our finite minds can comprehend, by building the universal grammars of language and religion into our brains. We did not create those grammars; they were bequeathed to us. | Huston Smith | ||
| 13e3655 | The Transcendent was my morning meal, we had the Eternal at lunch, and I ate a slice of the Infinite at dinner. | Huston Smith | ||
| 6e089be | He is admitting that he is trapped, which realization leads to his desperate cry that we have already quoted, "Who will rescue me from this body of death?" (Romans 14:24). In whatever words it is the cry that every alcoholic has repeated. If there is to be a liberation, it will have to come from without, or better, from above: a higher power." | Huston Smith | ||
| 43f391d | Religiously conceived, the human opportunity is to transform flashes of illumination into abiding light. | Huston Smith | ||
| a4aee99 | it. I was the professor at Harvard and everybody stood around in awe and listened to my every word, and all I felt was the horror that I knew inside that I didn't know. | Don Lattin | ||
| 2f461fd | It was David McClelland, his old mentor at Wesleyan, who got him the Harvard job. McClelland had moved up the academic ladder and had brought his bright young protege along. Alpert was given a huge corner office in an old mansion that housed the Center for Personality Research, which was part of Harvard's Department of Social Relations | Don Lattin | ||
| c4503a1 | that there is no reason he should grieve. He will perhaps say it was too early for me to leave for the forest. But even if affection should prevent me from leaving my family just now of my own accord, in due course death would tear us apart, and in that we would have no say. Birds settle on a tree for a while, and then go their separate ways again. The meeting of all living beings must likewise inevitably end in their parting. This world pa.. | Huston Smith | ||
| 518db15 | The only thing that is unqualifiedly good is extended vision, the enlargement of one's understanding of the ultimate nature of things. | Huston Smith | ||
| b1bb923 | Just as a man carrying on his head a load of wood that has caught fire would go rushing to a pond to quench the flames, even so will the seeker of truth, scorched by the fires of life--birth, death, self-deluding futility--go rushing to a teacher wise to the ways of the things that matter most. | Huston Smith | ||
| 4714029 | Do not seek after truth. Merely cease to hold opinions. | Huston Smith | ||
| 43492ed | There are worse kinds of infidelity than the sexual. I was living with one of the most interesting women in the world, and too often my attention was elsewhere. | Huston Smith | ||
| d9bc221 | Fear is incomplete knowledge. | Agatha Christie | ||
| 38a9ad3 | After all our time living together, my identity is not self-contained: I am the way I am because she is the way she is. This "marriage of true minds" Shakespeare spoke of does not occur at the wedding nuptials but after sixty-five years of wedlock we may be getting there." | Huston Smith | ||
| 2477b4d | Building upon this early conception of the Church, Christians came to think of it as having a double aspect. Insofar as it consists of Christ and the Holy Spirit dwelling in people and suffusing them with grace and love, it is perfect. Insofar as it consists of fallible human members, it always falls short of perfection.9 The worldly face of the Church is always open to criticism. But its mistakes, Christians hold, have been due to the huma.. | Huston Smith | ||
| 8005f03 | I had not yet gotten around to the sociobiologist E. O. Wilson's Consilience. When I did read it, I discovered on page 286 that people follow religion because it is "easier" than empiricism. That struck a nerve, and provoked a response I shall be candid enough to report. Mr. Wilson: When you have endured an eight-day O-sesshin in a Zen monastery, sitting cross-legged and motionless for twelve hours a day and allowed only three and one-half .. | Huston Smith |