Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self. — Quoted

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“Religion is the call to confront reality to master the self.”

Huston Smith · Religion

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Huston Smith

Rationalism and Newtonian science has lured us into dark woods, but a new metaphysics can rescue us.

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It is commonly said and known that each civilization has its own religion. Now my claim is that if we look deeper, the different civilizations were brought into being by the different revelations.

Religion

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Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

Poetry

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Whether things turn out for the better depends on what we do. We ought not spend our time masterminding the future, but recognize our marching orders: to do the best we can for history and the planet.

Future