Huston Smith
Huston Smith
Huston Cummings Smithis a religious studies scholar in the United States. His book The World's Religionshas sold over two million copies and remains a popular introduction to comparative religion...
NationalityAmerican
ProfessionTheologian
Date of Birth31 May 1919
CountryUnited States of America
spiritual makeup everyday
Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
different sanctity destination
...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.
reality emphasis ought
In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
gratitude future responsibility
What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to all things future.
destiny church world
Not only is the destiny of the individual bound up with the entire Church; it is responsible for helping to sanctify the entire world of nature and history.
responsibility yield people
If human life is to survive on this planet, the old dualistic worldview, with people on one side and the environment on the other, must yield to a new vision that connects us with everything else and leads us to care for and take responsibility for it.
inspirational made humans
As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
distance drama character
We are free when we are not the slave of our impulses, but rather their master. Taking inward distance, we thus become the authors of our own dramas rather than characters in them.
earth transformation used
Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.
healing government association
Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but universities? The same is true for religion... religion is institutionalized spirituality.
mean thinking dedication
I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.
spiritual goal life-is
The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits
art world great-work
The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.