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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Essential Sufism draws together more than three hundred fables, poems, and prayers that reveal the luminous spirit of Islamic mysticism.
Smith has devoted his life to the study of Christianity, Islam, Judaism, Buddhism, Confucianism, and Hinduism. He believes in them all.
This book is a clarion call for an expanded vision of human possibilities. In it, many of the best thinkers of our day ask us to renew the perennial search for self-knowledge and to discover the deeper meaning of our lives.
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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.
This classic companion to The World's Religions articulates the remarkable unity that underlies the world's religious traditions.
Beyond personal history and archetypal themes, a comprehensive psychology must also address the fundamental significance of birth and death. Stanislav Grof, M.D.
World-renowned authors active in the field of spiritual direction offer their wisdom about the core components of spiritual guidance across diverse religious and cultural traditions.
The larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder.
In this collection of illuminating conversations, renowned historian of world religions Huston Smith invites ten influential American Indian spiritual and political leaders to talk about their five-hundred-year struggle for religious freedom.
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In this video renowned thinker Huston Smith offers the powerful story of his spiritual journey through life.
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