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Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self. - Hus

Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self. – Huston Smith

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Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it. – Huston Smith

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Intelligence
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Huston Smith
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Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet. – Huston Smith

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Future
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Religion
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I like to say magic is the worlds second oldest profession, a mystical and often awe-inspiring spectacle that, throughout the ages, has blended superstition, trickery and religion. – Criss Angel

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Religion

In general, the churches, visited by me often on weekdays… bore for me the same relation to God that billboards did to Coca-Cola; they promoted thirst without quenching it. – John Updike, A Month of Sundays, 1975

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There is a very intimate connection between hypnotic phenomena and religion. – Havelock Ellis

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Religion

Things are coming to a pretty pass when religion is allowed to invade private life. – Lord Melbourne

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Should envious tongues some malice frame; to soil and tarnish your good name; Live it Down! – Henry Rink

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