The World's Religions, originally titled The Religions of Man, is a book written by religious studies scholar Huston Smith. The book was first published in 1958 and has been translated into twelve languages; it is "one of the most widely used college textbooks on comparative religion."
Part of this quote may actually be by Ralph Washington Sockman.
The World's Religions (1991)
Source: Beyond the Post-Modern Mind: The Place of Meaning in a Global Civilization
Context: In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes.
The World's Religions (1991)
“Sex is the divine in its most available epiphany.”
The World's Religions.(1991)
The World's Religions (1991)
On Lao-Tzu, the legendary author of the Tao Te Ching and founder of Taoism.
The World's Religions (1991)
“The sheer immensity of the human self as envisioned by the world's religions is awesome.”
The World's Religions (1991)
On the Torah's take on human existence.
The World's Religions (1991)
The World's Religions (1991)
Discussing the beliefs of the Eastern Orthodox Church.
The World's Religions (1991)
The World's Religions (1991)
The World's Religions (1991)
The World's Religions (1991)
Arguing that Confucianism ought to be considered a religion and not a 'moralistic rationalism.'
The World's Religions (1991)
“We are a blend of dust and divinity.”
Summarizing the Jewish view of human nature.
The World's Religions (1991)
On Australian indigenous spirituality.
The World's Religions (1991)
The World's Religions (1991)
The World's Religions (1991)
Context: The religions begin by assuring us that if we could see the full picture we would find it more integrated than we would normally suppose. Life gives us no view of the whole. [... ] It is as if life were a great tapestry, which we face from its wrong side. This gives it the appearance of a maze of knots and threads, which for the most part appear chaotic.
From a purely human standpoint the wisdom traditions are the species' most prolonged and serious attempts to infer from the maze on this side of the tapestry the pattern which, on its right side, gives meaning to the whole. As the beauty and harmony of the design derive from the way its parts are related, the design confers on these parts a significance that we, seeing only scraps of the design, do not normally perceive.
