A Quote by Huston Smith

I am profoundly moved and persuaded by the near-death experience.

Huston Smith

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Am Death Experience Moved Near Persuaded Profoundly

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Huston Smith
American - Theologian
May 31, 1919 - December 30, 2016

One of the near-death experience truths is that each person integrates their near-death experience into their own pre-existing belief system.

Jodi Long

When I experience something, I believe it. I almost choked to death when I was a four year old and had a near death experience. I was very upset that I didn't die because it was a lot more interesting out of your body than in it.

Bernie Siegel

Christianity began in Palestine as an experience, it moved to Greece and became a philosophy, it moved to Italy and became an institution, it moved to Europe and became a culture, and it moved to America and became a business! We've left the experience long behind.

Paul Smith

Life is a near-death experience.

George Carlin

Don’t yell at me when I just survived a near-death experience. (Abbie)

Sherrilyn Kenyon

The Voice of the River is a beautifully written, deeply inclusive and profoundly spirtual work of art. I am moved by its great genorosity above all, and its wisdom. It is a gift like no other.

Carole Maso

I am quite ready to acknowledge . . . that I ought to be grieved at death, if I were not persuaded that I am going to other gods who are wise and good (of this I am as certain as I can be of any such matters), and to men departed who are better than those whom I leave behind. And therefore I do not grieve as I might have done, for I have good hope that there is yet something remaining for the dead.

Socrates

I feel as though I am trying to describe a three-dimensional experience while living in a two-dimension world. The appropriate words, descriptions, and concepts don't even exist in our current language. I have subsequently read the accounts of other people's near-death experiences and their portrayals of heaven and I am able to see the same limitations in their descriptions and vocabulary that I see in my own.

Mary C. Neal

Sometimes a little near death experience helps them put things into perspective.

Anne Shropshire

Near-death experiences release a lot of endorphins, resulting in a natural high," Tod whispered. "And it's totally true that one passion feeds another." "You know we're way past 'near-death', right?" "My endorphins aren't listening to you.

Rachel Vincent

I had gone through a near-death experience, and that gives you an insight into how fleeting life is, and what's important.

Frank Serpico

With the near-death or clinical near-death phenomenon some people who are brought back from 'death' have reported being alive the entire time they were 'dead.' This phenomenon occurs among people with a wide diversity of religious belief and no religious belief at all - from atheists to Zen Buddhists.

John Ankerberg

I wrote 'Mistress of Spices' at an unusual time when I had a near-death experience after the birth of my second son.

Chitra Banerjee Divakaruni

It is profoundly tragic that I am a slave, but it is profoundly joyous that I am God's slave, not that of a devil.

Kedar Joshi

When we hold to the core, the opposite sides are the same if they are seen from the center of the moving circle. I do not experience; I am experience. I am not the subject of experience; I am that experience. I am awareness. Nothing else can be I or can exist.