Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
Huston SmithI grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
Huston SmithThe Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.
Huston SmithEntheogens are not to be lightly trifled with... However, if taken with the right attitude and in the proper setting, psychoactive drugs may produce religious experiences. ...it is far less clear that they can produce religious lives.
Huston SmithAs the twentieth century began, science equaled a materialistic worldview. As the twenty-first century began, the worldview of science, at least of physics and astronomy, may have traded place with that of religion. Consider Einstein's famous equation E = mc2. Nothing of matter dies but continues on in another form, elsewhere. The church divines and theologians for two thousand years have devised arguments and "proofs" of immortality but nothing equal to this.
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