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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

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Man is lyrical, woman epic, marriage dramatic.
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Drama Lyrics Man Marriage Woman
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
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
It is certain my belief gains quite infinitely the very moment I can convince another mind thereof.
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Belief Mindset Moments Myself Quite
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
A complete need should not exist love, life in common with loved ones?
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Common Existence Life Love Need Oneself
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
Every disease is a musical problem. Its cure a musical solution. The more rapid and complete the solution, the greater the musical talent of the doctor.
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Complete Doctor Music Problem Solution Talent
Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.

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