Walnuts have a shell, and they have a kernel. Religions are the same. They have an essence, but then they have a protective coating. This is not the …

- Huston Smith

Beware of the differences that blind us to the unity that binds us.

- Huston Smith

We all carry it within us: supreme strength, the fullness of wisdom, unquenchable joy. It is never thwarted, and cannot be destroyed.

- Huston Smith

The goal of spiritual life is not altered states, but altered traits

- Huston Smith

What is Zen? Simple, simple, so simple. Infinite gratitude toward all things past; infinite service to all things present; infinite responsibility to…

- Huston Smith

God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different…

- Huston Smith

The proper response to a great work of art is to enter it as though there were nothing else in the world.

- Huston Smith

Institutions are not pretty. Show me a pretty government. Healing is wonderful, but the American Medical Association? Learning is wonderful, but univ…

- Huston Smith

We become compassionate not from altruism which denies the self for the sake of the other, but from the insight that sees and feels one is the other.

- Huston Smith