Quote by Huston Smith
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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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet. – Huston Smith

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Poetry
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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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I broke with my religion in college. – Anne Rice

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Religion

The Christian use of religion as a personal love affair both shocked me, and attracted me. – Lionel Blue

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Religion

Religion promotes the divine discontent within oneself, so that one tries to make oneself a better person and draw oneself closer to God. – Cyril Cusack

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Religion

As with the Christian religion, the worst advertisement for Socialism is its adherents. – George Orwell

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Religion

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There are as many reasons for running as there are days in the year, years in my life. But mostly I run because I am an animal and a child, an artist and a saint. So, too, are you. Find your own play, your own self-renewing compulsion, and you will become the person you are meant to be. – George Sheehan

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Evangelism as the New Testament describes it is not childs play. Evangelism is work, often hard work. Yet it is not drudgery. It puts person in good humor, and makes him truly human. – Oswald C. Hoffman

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To fly from, need not be to hate, makind:
All are not fit with them to stir and toil,
Nor is it discontent to keep the mind
Deep in its fountain. – Lord (George Gordon) Byron

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Theres more good music being made now than ever before. – David Byrne

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