“ Muhammad adhered meticulously to the charter he forged for Medina, which - grounded as it was in the Quranic injunction, "Let there be no compulsion in religion" (2:256) - is arguably the first mandat… Huston Smith
“ Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet. Huston Smith
“ Every society and religion has rules, for both have moral laws. And the essence of morality consists, as in art, of drawing the line somewhere. Huston Smith
“ 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 th… Huston Smith
“ He who does the task Dictated by duty, Caring nothing For the fruit of the action, He is a yogi. (Bhagavad-Gita, VI:I) Hence Huston Smith
“ 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 Huston Smith
“ Just as a man carrying on his head a load of wood that has caught fire would go rushing to a pond to quench the flames, even so will the seeker of truth, scorched by the fires of life—birth, death, se… Huston Smith
“ We all carry it within us: supreme strength the fullness of wisdom unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted and cannot be destroyed. Huston Smith
“ It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations. Huston Smith
“ Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to… Huston Smith
“ Without attention, the human sense of wonder and the holy will stir occasionally, but to become a steady flame it must be tended. Huston Smith
“ Among the languages of American Indians there is no word for ‘art,’ because for Indians everything is art. Huston Smith
“ God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. It's… Huston Smith
“ Renaissance men who knew something about everything that was to be known disappeared several centuries ago. Students now face a plethora of compartmentalized fields of knowledge. Uninstructed as to ho… Huston Smith
“ And it was from a Hindu, Swami Satprakashananda with his Christmas talks on Jesus Christ, the Son of God, that I received the strongest confirmation—by an outside examiner, as it were—of Jesus’s divin… Huston Smith
