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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.

— Huston Smith The World's Religions (1991)

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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.

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All human thought proceeds through words, so if words are askew, thought cannot proceed aright.

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Idealists may call for the exercise of heroic continence in such circumstances, but heroism is never a mass option.

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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.

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