"The most powerful moral influence is example."
"At the center of the religious life is a peculiar kind of joy, the prospect of a happy ending that blossoms from necessarily painful ordeals, the promise of human difficulties embraced and overcome."
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Source: Huston Smith, Phil Cousineau (2003). “The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life”, p.24, Univ of California Press
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