Harry Dean Stanton Quotes

I am not into any religions. I have been mostly influenced by Eastern religions - Taoism, the essence of Hinduism and Buddhism. But my belief is not having any beliefs.

Harry Dean Stanton

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• Listen, a lot of religions have fundamentalists.

  

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• I've been a comedian, hosted travel shows, explored world religions, started improv troupes, given keynote speeches at conferences around the country, and had a milk shake named after me called the Handicappuccino.

  

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• In my opinion, there is one singular problem with religions in general: they are exclusive. To me, this exclusivity is not right.

  

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• Major religions are examples of 'noble lies' aimed at uplifting human stature.

  

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• Our religions are much more similar than they are different.

  

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• If science proves facts that conflict with Buddhist understanding, Buddhism must change accordingly. We should always adopt a view that accords with the facts.

  

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• As far as ignorance is concerned, not just Buddhism, every religion recognizes it as the source of suffering.

  

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• People may wish to say that the thing that is in conflict with my creativity is not Buddhism - that's fine.

  

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• I understand that words can mean different things to different people, and, further, that people can have different relationships with complex abstract entities such as Buddhism. To me, anyway, the entity in my life that conflicts with my creativity is Buddhism.

  

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• Another part of the rejection I mention was the realisation that Buddhism quite simply ignores or dismisses a whole hemisphere of human experience that finds expression in and is enshrined by the mystery religions.

  

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• If we do overcome linear time, I would hope this means dwelling more directly in the fertility of the imagination rather than denying it, as some aspects of Buddhism seem to.

  

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• The peculiar thing is that, in focusing only on the here and now, Buddhism seems to despise the world.

  

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• Suzuki's works on Zen Buddhism are among the best contributions to the knowledge of living Buddhism... We cannot be sufficiently grateful to the author, first for the fact of his having brought Zen closer to Western understanding, and secondly for the manner in which he has achieved this task.

  

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• I'm definitely a practicing Hindu.

  

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• If we continue to think and live as if we belong only to different cultures and different religions, with separate missions and goals, we will always be in self-defeating competition with each other. Once we realize we are all members of humanity, we will want to compete in the spirit of love.

  

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• Hinduism loses its right to make a universal appeal if it closes its temples to Harijans.

  

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• I feel a lot more secure about the directions I take, than I might have, had I not practiced Buddhism.

  

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• I think it matters almost infinitely that we practice one of the authentic religions. But if you mean does it make any difference which. The answer is no, as long as each is followed with equal intensity, sincerity, dedication.

  

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• I am not into any religions. I have been mostly influenced by Eastern religions - Taoism, the essence of Hinduism and Buddhism. But my belief is not having any beliefs.

  

  Harry Dean Stanton
  • Religions
  • Buddhism
  • Hinduism