Huston Smith, PhD, (1919–2016) was a preeminent American religious studies scholar, best known for his work The Religions of Man, which was republished as The World’s Religions and remains a classic in the field.
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This classic companion to The World's Religions articulates the remarkable unity that underlies the world's religious traditions.
Smith has devoted his life to the study of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism. He believes in them all.
Essential Sufism draws together more than three hundred fables, poems, and prayers that reveal the luminous spirit of Islamic mysticism.
Love is the movement within life that carries us, that enables us, that causes us to break out of what Alan Watts calls the ‘skin-encapsulated ego.’ Without love, we are self-centered, but love enables us to move the center of our lives outside our ego.
In this video renowned thinker Huston Smith offers the powerful story of his spiritual journey through life.
Beyond personal history and archetypal themes, a comprehensive psychology must also address the fundamental significance of birth and death. Stanislav Grof, M.D.
An inspiring chronicle of life-changing encounters, personal transformation, and a vision of love that transcends the everyday definition, to embrace universal kindness and compassion, based on the knowledge that all beings are one family and that our capacity to love is one of the world’s most...
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The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
Brave New World author Aldous Huxley on enlightenment and the "ultimate reality." In this anthology of 26 essays and other writings, Huxley discusses the nature of God, enlightenment, being, good and evil, religion, eternity, and the divine.
The world's premier authority on religious traditions and his premier successor present a concise and timely guide to the history, teachings, and practice of Buddhism. Bookshelves abound with introductions to Buddhism, many written by luminaries and spiritual giants of the faith.
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