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All -isms end up in schisms.
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Ends
Isms
Schism
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We are a blend of dust and divinity.
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Divinity
Dust
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The faith I was born into formed me.
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Formed
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The most powerful moral influence is example.
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Example
Influence
Moral
Most Powerful
Powerful
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Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.
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Divine
Epiphany
Sex
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God is defined by Jesus but not confined to Jesus.
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Jesus
Confined
Defined
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It would be good if we bore one another's burdens.
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Be Good
Burden
Would Be
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The self is too small an object for perpetual enthusiasm.
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Enthusiasm
Objects
Self
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Swallow your pride and admit that we all need help at times.
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Helping
Needs
Pride
Need
Admit
Times
Help
Swallow
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In order to live man must believe in that for which he lives.
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Men
Believe
Order
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Religion is the call to confront reality; to master the self.
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Masters
Reality
Self
Confront
Master
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I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.
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Moved
Near Death
Near Death Experience
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We are born in mystery, we live in mystery, and we die in mystery.
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Born
Dies
Mystery
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Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.
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Blind
Differences
Unity
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In nature, the emphasis is in what is rather than what ought to be.
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Emphasis
Ought
Reality
Rather
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...the only thing that continues is the consequences of our action.
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Action
Consequences Of Our Actions
Our Actions
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Most of the book deals with things we already know yet never learn.
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Book
Deals
Knows
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The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits
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Goal
Life Is
Spiritual
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Science can prove nothing about God, because God lies outside its province.
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Lying
Prove
Provinces
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You subtract Christianity from Huston Smith, and there is no Huston Smith left.
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Christianity
Smith
Subtract
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Swami Ashokananda was a brilliant and accomplished spiritual teacher in the West.
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Teacher
Spiritual
West
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Religion teaches us that our lives here on earth are to be used for transformation.
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Religion
Earth
Transformation
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God enters our lives when through our creative interchanges we make history more just.
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God
Creative
Interchange
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I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.
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Boys
Granted
Grew Up
Missionaries
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If you are drilling for water, it's better to drill one 60-foot well than 10 6-foot wells.
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Drilling
Feet
Water
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Practice giving things away, not just things you don't care about, but things you do like.
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Collaboration
Giving
Practice
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What is sickness? What is health? Both are distractions. Put them both aside and go forward.
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Distraction
Sickness
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...the single destination of sanctity could admit of so many different avenues leading to it.
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Destination
Different
Sanctity
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Daily the world grows smaller, leaving understanding the only place where peace can find a home.
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Home
Leaving
Understanding
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When there are miles to go before we sleep, altered traits are more important than altered states.
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Important
Sleep
States
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Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.
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Science
Dark
Metaphysics
Rationalism
Rescue
Woods
Lured
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...but with my clamoring ego solidly in place, I considered the title, 'Memories of a Failed Nobody'.
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Ego
Memories
Titles
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Built into human makeup is a longing for a 'more' that the world of everyday experience cannot requite.
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Godly
Makeup
Spiritual
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It has been estimated that one third of our Western civilization bears the mark of its Jewish ancestry.
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Ancestry
Bears
Civilization
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It's often difficult for us to act compassionately, but sacred art eases the difficulty by ennobling us.
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Difficulty
Sacred
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The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.
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Art
Great Work
World
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As human beings we are made to surpass ourselves and are truly ourselves only when transcending ourselves.
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Inspirational
Humans
Made
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The Sufis say there are three ways to know fire - by hearing it described, by seeing it, or by being burned.
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Fire
Three
Way
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Pure science - this vision of the universe as 15 billion light years across - I am bedazzled and awed by it.
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Pure
Billion
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If we take the world’s enduring religions at their best, we discover the distilled wisdom of the human race.
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Endure
Race
World
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Imagine a man besottedly in love: he won't waste time speculating whether other women equally merit his affection.
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Love
Men
Waste
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...primal people see the objects of this world not (or not only) as solid but as open windows to their divine source.
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People
Window
World
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I am very orthodox in thinking that Jesus acted in his life the way God would have acted if God had assumed human form.
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Jesus
Form
Human Form
Orthodox
Thinking
Way
Acted
Life God Thinking
Assumed
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Exclusively oral cultures are unencumbered by dead knowledge, dead facts. Libraries, on the other hand, are full of them.
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Culture
Hands
Library
Cultures
Libraries
Oral
Unencumbered
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No one in human history has given as much thought to the interweaving of altered states of consciousness and religion as I have.
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Altered
Consciousness
Human History
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The first koan do not have rational answers. They are techniques devised over the millennia for triggering an actual experience.
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Answers
Firsts
Technique
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As known unknowns become known; unknown unknowns proliferate; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
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Islands
Shoreline
Wonder
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We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.
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Fullness
Joy
Supreme
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I have a body and I have a soul. And my body belongs to the faith - in fact, the church - into which it was born, the Methodist Church.
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Body
Church
Soul
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When I read the Upanishads, which are part of Vedanta, I found a profundity of worldview that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
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Christianity
Found
Made
Profundity
Worldview
Grade
Third
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