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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.

— Huston Smith

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

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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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