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The invisible excludes nothing, the invisible that excludes nothing is the infmite - the soul of India is the infmite.
Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.
The World's Religions (1991)
All human thought proceeds through words, so if words are askew, thought cannot proceed aright.
The World's Religions (1991)
Idealists may call for the exercise of heroic continence in such circumstances, but heroism is never a mass option.
The World's Religions (1991)
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.
The World's Religions (1991)
No affirmation is more than a finger pointing to the moon.
The World's Religions (1991)
The sheer immensity of the human self as envisioned by the world's religions is awesome.
The World's Religions (1991)
It is obtuse to confuse Hinduism's images with idolatry, and their multiplicity with polytheism. They are 'runways' from which the sense-laden human spirit can rise for its "flight of the alone to the Alone.
They [Taoists] were fond of pointing out that the value of cups, windows, and doorways lies in the part of them that are not there.
The World's Religions (1991)
The religions begin by assuring us that if we could see the full picture we would find it more integrated than we would normally suppose.
The World's Religions (1991)
Reserved as he [Confucius] was about the supernatural, he was not without it; somewhere in the universe there was a power that was on the side of right.
The World's Religions (1991)
We are a blend of dust and divinity.
The World's Religions (1991)
Looking at the difference between pre- and post-Islamic Arabia, we are forced to ask whether history has ever witnessed a comparable moral advance among so many people in so short a time.
The World's Religions (1991)
When I read the Upanishads, I found a profundity of world view that made my Christianity seem like third grade.
Confucius saw the human self as a node, not an entity.
The World's Religions (1991)
They saw lives that had been transformed--men and women who were ordinary in every way except for the fact that they seemed to have found the secret of living.
The World's Religions (1991)
The self is a center of relationships.
The World's Religions (1991)
While the West was still thinking, perhaps, of 6,000 years old universe - India was already envisioning ages and eons and galaxies as numerous as the sands of the Ganges. The Universe so vast that modem astronomy slips into its folds without a ripple.
And it is here that India's mind boggling variety links up to her infinite soul... India includes so much because her soul being infinite excludes nothing. It goes without saying that the universe that India saw emerging from the infinite was stupendous.
The New Age movement looks like a mixed bag. I see much in it that seems good: It's optimistic; it's enthusiastic; it has the capacity for belief. On the debit side, I think one needs to distinguish between belief and credulity.