Tag: Huston Smith

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teacher

Huston Smith | teacher

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

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society

Huston Smith | society

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.

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science

Huston Smith | science

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

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religion

Huston Smith | religion

Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self.

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religion

Huston Smith | religion

First of all, my persuasion is what really breeds violence is political differences. But because religion serves as the soul of community, it gets drawn into the fracas and turns up the heat.

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religion

Huston Smith | religion

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.

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religion

Huston Smith | religion

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.

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poetry

Huston Smith | poetry

Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

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knowledge

Huston Smith | knowledge

Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.

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intelligence

Huston Smith | intelligence

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 speak. Or better, we continue and extend it.

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