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"An image I find useful is the cross - not the Christian cross, but an ordinary cross. One beam of the cross is horizontal, which stands for the historical dimension: our life amid observable events and calendar time. The other beam, the vertical, thrusts upward toward heaven and suggests the sacred dimension: our lives amid timeless truths. We live in time and timelessness simultaneously, just as we are simultaneously body, mind, and spirit." (page xx)
"Why do I have to do everything before I can do anything!" (page 85)
"The proper response to a work of art is to enter into it as though there were nothing else in the world. The proper response to a major spiritual tradition, if you can truly see it, may be to practice it." (page 113)
from "Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine" by Huston Smith with Jeffery Paine
"Why do I have to do everything before I can do anything!" (page 85)
"The proper response to a work of art is to enter into it as though there were nothing else in the world. The proper response to a major spiritual tradition, if you can truly see it, may be to practice it." (page 113)
from "Tales of Wonder: Adventures Chasing the Divine" by Huston Smith with Jeffery Paine
