"The most powerful moral influence is example."
"...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all religions - not only to reach God but to reach each other."
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Source: Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.82, Univ of California Press
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