"The most powerful moral influence is example."
"In mysteries what we know, and our realization of what we do not know, proceed together; the larger the island of knowledge, the longer the shoreline of wonder. It is like the quantum world, where the more we understand its formalism, the stranger that world becomes."
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Source: The World's Religions. Book by Huston Smith, 1991.
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