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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.

— 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.

The World's Religions (1991)

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

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No affirmation is more than a finger pointing to the moon.

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