SPIRIT OF THE WORLD |
MANY VOICES / ONE TRUTH |
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THE WORLD'S RELIGIONS
Huston Smith
Chapters on Hinduism, Buddhism, Confucianism, Taoism, Islam, Judaism and Christianity, plus chapters on primal religions such as native traditions of the Americas, Australia, Africa and Oceania, with expanded sections on the inner dimensions of these great religions.
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"The will remains free. The lawfulness of things makes the present state the product of prior acts, but within the present the will is influenced but not controlled. People remain at liberty to shape their destinies."
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"Every human being, simply by virtue of his or her humanity, is a child of God and therefore in possession of rights that even kings must respect."
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"Underlying the human self and animating it is a reservoir of being that never dies, is never exhausted, and is unrestricted in consciousness and bliss."
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"To the eye of the heart, the world IS God-in-disguise, God veiled."
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"The overwhelming thrust of the Koran is to proclaim the unity, omnipotence, omniscience, and mercy of God."
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"When a heart is illumined by true knowledge, it knows that above all these wars of sects and sectarians presides the one indivisible, eternal, all-knowing bliss." Ramakrishna
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"In the context of wholeness, the opposites appear as no more than phases in an endless cycling process, for each turns incessantly into its opposite, exchanging places with it. Life…bends back upon itself to come, full circle, to the realization that all is one and all is well."
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"We live in a world in which there is no chance or accident. Those words are simply covers for ignorance."
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"The entire world should be pervaded with thoughts of loving-kindness."
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"Value, virtue, and spiritual fulfillment come through realizing the potentialities that are uniquely one's own; in ways that are not inconsequential, those possibilities differ from those of every other soul that ever has lived, or ever will live in the future."
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"The welfare of everything in creation is affected to some degree by what each individual contributes to or detracts from it."
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"Human bodies are of course separate, but on a deeper level we are joined like icebergs in a common floe."
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"The prerequisite of political stability is social justice, for it is in the nature of things that injustice will not endure."
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"The integrating principle of the whole – the Spirit, as it were, of the universe – instinct without contrivance, flows with purpose." George Romanes, Charles Darwin's colleague
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"All of us dwell on the brink of the infinite ocean of life's creative power. We carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted and cannot be destroyed."
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"Reality is in fact one and perfect."
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"The various religions are but different languages through which God speaks to the human heart. 'Truth is one; sages call it by different names.' [the Vedas]"
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"Life being one,…our duty to our fellows is to understand them as extensions, other aspects, of ourselves – fellow facets of the same Reality." Christmas Humphreys, 'Buddhism'
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"The One is none other than the All, the All none other than the One. Take your stand on this, and the rest will follow of its own accord." Seng Ts'an, 'Trust in the Heart'
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"All life down to its smallest element, can, if rightly approached, be seen as a reflection of the infinite source of holiness, which is God."
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"It is a myth, not a mandate, a fable, not a logic by which people are moved." Irwin Edman
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"Locked in every human being is a store of love that partakes of the divine – the 'imago dei', image of God, it is sometimes called."
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"Every moment…is Indra's cosmic net, laced with jewels at every juncture. Each jewel reflects the others, together with all the reflections IN the others."
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"Seen in perspective, the world is ultimately benign."
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"God is the Cosmic Dancer, whose routine is all creatures and all worlds."
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