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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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If Rumi is the most-read poet in America today, Coleman Barks is in good part responsible. His ear for the truly divine madness in Rumi’s poetry is really remarkable. – Huston Smith

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Rumi
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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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Every week I get letters from people worldwide who feel that the possibilian point of view represents their understanding better than either religion or neo-atheism. – David Eagleman

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Religion

Art and Religion are, then, two roads by which men escape from circumstance to ecstasy. Between aesthetic and religious rapture there is a family alliance. Art and Religion are means to similar states of mind. – Clive Bell

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Religion

I am a Westerner. Were not going to change the West by going East. The East has a lot to teach us, but essentially its like a mirror, saying, hey, cant you see whats here in your own religion, what are you, stupid? – Matthew Fox

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Religion

Its not just the effect of technology on the environment, on religion, on the economic structure, on society, on politics, etc. Its that everything now exists in technology to the point where technology is the new and comprehensive host of nature of life. – Godfrey Reggio

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Religion

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Whoever tramples on the plea for justice temperately made in the name of peace only outrages peace and kills something fine in the heart of man which God put there when we got our manhood. – William Allen White

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Money brings some happiness. But after a certain point, it just brings more money. – Neil Simon

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I travel the world, and Im happy to say that America is still the great melting pot – maybe a chunky stew rather than a melting pot at this point, but you know what I mean. – Philip Glass

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If I die, I forgive you. If I live we shall see. – Proverb

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Forgiveness