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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.

— 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.

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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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