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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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Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us. – Huston Smith

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Science
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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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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 is no more the parent of morality than an incubator is the mother of a chicken. – Lemuel K. Washburn

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Religion

I believe that there is some spiritual entity thats greater than us. I do not belong to any specific organized religion. I have always believed that, and I believe it even more so now. I believe that someone was listening to me, and someone is giving me an incredibly blessed life. – Jane Seymour

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Religion

Just in our lifetime our society has become looser and more private, it becomes extremely difficult to hold to any permanent commitment whatever, least of all to organized religion. – Mary Douglas

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Religion

My religion is very simple. My religion is kindness. – Dalai Lama

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Religion

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The truth is rarely pure and never simple. – Oscar Wilde

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Spiritually good people, pure in heart, who long for the Blessed Sacrament but cannot receive at the time, can receive spiritually… even a hundred times a day, in sickness and in health, with immeasurable grace and profit. – Johannes Tauler

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Health

By embracing your mother wound as your yoga, you transform what has been a hindrance in your life into a teacher of the heart. – Phillip Moffitt

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The legal right of a taxpayer to decrease the amount of what otherwise would be his taxes, or altogether avoid them, by means which the law permits, cannot be doubted. – George Sutherland

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legal