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

~Huston Smith

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The Buddha is in me, the Buddha is in you. Live up to it.

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In my town, I had only one adult American male role model: my father. I grew up taking it for granted that missionaries were what American boys grew up to be.

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I happen to be a Christian. I was brought up and drenched in that. 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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Science is empirical, all about physical senses that tell us about the world. But physical senses are not the only senses we have. Nobody has ever seen a thought. Nobody has ever seen a feeling. And yet thoughts and feelings are where we live our lives most immediately, and science cannot connect with that.

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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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Biography

Nationality: American

Type: Theologian

Born: May 31st, 1919

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