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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

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If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Mathematics is the Life of the Gods.
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God Life Mathematics
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

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