You can never get enough of what you don't really want.
Huston SmithYou can’t understand anything unless you unless you understand everything.
Huston SmithIf we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.
Huston SmithMight we begin then to transform our passing illuminations into abiding light?
Huston SmithTag: inspirational transcendence transformation
All -isms end up in schisms.
Huston SmithInstitutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality. — Mother Jones November/December 1997.
Huston SmithTag: religion
We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.
Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
Huston SmithTag: religion
With mind distracted, never thinking, "Death is coming,"
To slave away on the pointless business of mundane life,
And then to come out empty--it is a tragic error. (116)
trans by Robert Thurman
Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like. Remember, it is not the size of a gift, it is its quality and the amount of mental attachment you overcome that count. So don't bankrupt yourself on a momentary positive impulse, only to regret it later. Give thought to giving. Give small things, carefully, and observe the mental processes going along with the act of releasing the little thing you liked. (53)
(Quote is actually Robert A F Thurman but Huston Smith, who only wrote the introduction to my edition, seems to be given full credit for this text.)
Pagina 1 di 2.
prossimo ultimo »
Data privacy
Imprint
Contact
Diese Website verwendet Cookies, um Ihnen die bestmögliche Funktionalität bieten zu können.