...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.
Huston SmithThe New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity. How deep does New Age go? Has it come to terms with radical evil? More, I am not sure how much social conscience there is in New Age thinking.
Huston Smith...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.
Huston SmithWhat is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.
Huston SmithThe notion that Western religions are more rigid than those of Asia is overdrawn. Ours is the most permissive society history has ever known - almost the only thing that is forbidden now is to forbid - and Asian teachers and their progeny play up to this propensity by soft-pedaling Hinduism's, Buddhism's, Sufism's rules.
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