"Human intelligence is a reflection of the intelligence that produces everything. In knowing, we are simply extending the intelligence that comes to and constitutes us. We mimic the mind of God, so to speak. Or better, we continue and extend it."

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Source : Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.43, Univ of California Press

Huston Smith

#Reflection Quotes #Knowing Quotes #Mind Quotes

“I have been a Cowboys fan since I was a little bitty boy. And my dream has finally become a reality, of not only just playing a professional, becoming a professional athlete, but playing for the team that I always wanted to play for.”
“Yet the wonder of it all is that, while engaged in a seemingly endless struggle, the Israelis have managed to turn a desert into a garden.”
“Like anyone else, there are days I feel beautiful and days I don't, and when I don't, I do something about it.”
“Life goes on forever like the gnawing of a mouse.”
“I'm afraid to start plastic surgery. And my breasts are so versatile now, I can wear them down, up, and side to side.”

Source : "American Morning", www.cnn.com. September 22, 2004.
“I thank the Lord that I may have passed some of the tests, but maybe there will have to be more before I shall have been polished to do all that the Lord would have me do. Sometimes when the veil has been very thin, I have thought that if the struggle had been still greater that maybe then there would have been no veil.”
“Then you'll feel your cheek scratched... A little kiss, like a crazy spider, Will run round your neck... And you'll say to me : "Find it !" bending your head - And we'll take a long time to find that creature - Which travels a lot...”
“I realized that I had things in my head not like what I had been taught - not like what I had seen - shapes and ideas so familiar to me that it hadn't occurred to me to put them down. I decided to stop painting, to put away everything I had done, and to start to say the things that were my own.”

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