And it is here that India's mind boggling variety links up … - Huston Smith

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And it is here that India's mind boggling variety links up to her infinite soul... India includes so much because her soul being infinite excludes nothing. It goes without saying that the universe that India saw emerging from the infinite was stupendous.

Huston Smith

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Huston Smith (May 31, 1919 – December 30, 2016) was a religious studies scholar in the United States, notable for the number of religions of which he considers or has considered himself a member. He is most well known for his book The World's Religions, formerly titled The Religions of Man.

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Alternative Names: Huston Cummings Smith

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When I read the Upanishads, I found a profundity of world view that made my Christianity seem like third grade.

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