List of Huston Smith Quotes

...yesterday And Today And Tomorrow Are Not An Arrow That Shoots From Past To Present To Future; Rather All Tenses, And Sleeping And Waking, Mix And Cohabit In An Atemporal Duration Beyond Clocks And Calendars. The Aboriginal World Began Long Ago When The Ancestors Sang In Dreamtime The Cosmic Rhythms That Give Shape To The Things We See, And It Is The Beginning Right Now, When A Living Tiwi Sings The Dream Songs That Continue, Or Are, The World.

When Historians Look Back On Our Century, They May Remember It Most, Not For Space Travel Or The Release Of Nuclear Energy, But As The Time When The Peoples Of The World First Came To Take One Another Seriously.

I Had Assumed That Bush's Seemingly Inflexible Policy To Support Sharon Was For Political Reasons Of His Getting Elected. But As To Whether He Really Believes His Actions Are Going To Hasten The Day Of The Final Conflict, I Do Not Know.

If Rumi Is The Most-read Poet In America Today, Coleman Barks Is In Good Part Responsible. His Ear For The Truly Divine Madness In Rumi’s Poetry Is Really Remarkable.

So Always, If We Look Back, Concern For Face-to-face Morality, And Its Modern Emphasis On Justice As Well, Have Historically Evolved As Religious Issues.

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.

I Grew Up Taking It For Granted That Missionaries Were What American Boys Grew Up To Be.

Ancient Wisdom And Quantum Physicists Make Unlikely Bedfellows: In Quantum Mechanics The Observer Determines (or Even Brings Into Being) What Is Observed, And So, Too, For The Tiwis, Who Dissolve The Distinction Between Themselves And The Cosmos. In Quantum Physics, Subatomic Particles Influence Each Other From A Distance, And This Tallies With The Aboriginal View, In Which People, Animals, Rocks, And Trees All Weave Together In The Same Interwoven Fabric.

Religion Is The Call To Confront Reality; To Master The Self.

It Must Have Been Providence That Directed Joel Morwood To Dig In The Right Place, For He Struck A Lode Of Pure Gold, As Wide (comprehensive) As It Is Deep (profound). What He Mined From That Lode Is A Spiritual Treasure.

I Don't Have Any Fear Of Death. I Do, However, Have An Inordinate Fear Of Becoming Dependent On Other People. To Me, That's The Severest Test, Not Death.

I Would Not Say That Ethical Behavior Is Not Possible For The Atheist Or Agnostic. It Is. A Couple Of Pretty Good Examples Are Bertrand Russell And Jean-paul Sartre. However, I Will Have To Say That If We Take The Human Lot As A Whole, These Two Men Must Be Seen As Exceptions.