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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)
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)
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)
What a curious portrait this is for the supposed founder of a religion. The Old Boy didn't preach. He didn't organize or promote. He wrote a few pages on request, rode off on a water buffalo, and that was it was far as he was concerned.
The World's Religions (1991)
In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.
The World's Religions (1991)
From a purely human standpoint the wisdom traditions are the species' most prolonged and serious attempts to infer from the maze on this side of the tapestry the pattern which, on its right side, gives meaning to the whole.
The World's Religions (1991)
Mystics of every faith report contacts with a world that startles and transforms them with its dazzling darkness. Zen stands squarely in this camp, its only uniqueness being that it makes breaking the language barrier its central concern.
The World's Religions (1991)
What made him outlive his time and place was the way he used the Spirit that coursed though him not just to heal individuals but -- this was his aspiration -- to heal humanity, beginning with his own people.
The World's Religions (1991)
Only while they are conforming their actions to the model of some archetypal hero do the Arunta feel that they are truly alive, for in those roles they are immortal. The occasions on which they slip from such molds are quite meaningless, for time immediately devours those occasions and reduces them to nothingness.
The World's Religions (1991)