What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.
Huston SmithI have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.
Huston SmithThe object of pilgrimage is not rest and recreation โ to get away from it all. To set out on a pilgrimage is to throw down a challenge to everyday life.
Huston SmithThe word translated, koan, it means a problem. But it's a very special problem. And to strip it down to the way it works, you are given a problem which has no rational solution. There is a contradiction built into it. One standard - one is this is the sound of two hands clapping. What is the sound of one hand clapping? And so on. All right, so the first thing is that it brings your rational mind to an impasse.
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