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It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us. Huston Smith

Art Difficult Difficulty Sacred Often Us Act

The modern period adds social ethics to religions agenda, for we now realize that social structures are not like laws of nature. They are human creations, so we are responsible for them. Huston Smith

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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be. Huston Smith

Nature Ought Rather Emphasis Than

Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it. Huston Smith

Science Vision Light Pure Universe Am Years Across Billion

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. Huston Smith

Day Conflict Political Assumed Final Hasten Seemingly Had He Support Sharon Know Policy His Getting Going Inflexible Whether Bush Elected Really Reasons Actions Believes

The crisis that the world finds itself in as it swings on the hinge of a new millennium is located in something deeper than particular ways of organizing political systems and economies. Huston Smith

World Political Located Ways Crisis Systems Finds Something Economies New Particular Hinge Itself Than Political Systems Organizing Swings Deeper Millennium

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. Huston Smith

The most powerful moral influence is example. Huston Smith

Example Moral Powerful Most Most Powerful Influence

In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives. Huston Smith

Man Live Believe Must He Order Which Lives

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

Religion Own Claim Brought Civilization Civilizations Look Known Said Revelations Were Being Different Commonly Each Now Deeper

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 the same in religion. Huston Smith

The 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. Huston Smith

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You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left. Huston Smith

You Christianity Smith Left Subtract

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