Huston Smith Quotes About Language

Quotes about: Language

• Poetry is a special use of language that opens onto the real. The business of the poet is truth telling, which is why in the Celtic tradition no one could be a teacher unless he or she was a poet.

  Huston Smith

  Teacher, Real, Special

  Huston Smith (2003). “The Way Things Are: Conversations with Huston Smith on the Spiritual Life”, p.196, Univ of California Press

• ...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.

  Huston Smith

  God, Yoga, Perspective

  Huston Smith, Jeffery Paine (2012). “The Huston Smith Reader”, p.82, Univ of California Press

• God has to speak to each person in their own language, in their own idioms. Take Spanish, Chinese. You can express the same thought, but to different people you have to use a different language. Its the same in religion.

  Huston Smith

  People, Chinese, Different

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