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Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering – you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.

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Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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Manifestation Name Pleasure
A broom sweeps clean, and itself becomes soiled; cleanse yourself of those offenses of which you may feel guilty.
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Clean Guilty May
Fear builds walls to bar the light.
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Bars Light Wall
The world is full of wonders and miracles but man takes his little hand and covers his eyes and sees nothing.
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Eye Hands Men
He who is full of joy is full of love.
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Build Joy Light
There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.
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God Men Rooms
Mind is the foundation of man.
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Foundation Man Mind
When a father complains that his son has taken to evil ways, what should he do? Love him more than ever.
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Father Son Taken
The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
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Aspect Feelings Worship
To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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Dirty Friend Hesitate
As man acts, God reacts.
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Act God Man React
Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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Loses Losing Yourself
For my sake, the entire world was created.
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Entire Sake World
Telling the proper stories is as if you were approaching the throne of Heaven in a fiery chariot.
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Heaven Stories Thrones
Everything above and below is one unity.
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Above Below Unity
The ideal of man is to be a revelation himself, clearly to recognize himself as a manifestation of God.
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Manifestation Men Revelation

Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering – you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.

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Your fellow man is your mirror. If your own face is clean, the image you perceive will also be flawless. But should you look upon your fellow man and see a blemish, it is your own imperfection that you are encountering – you are being shown what it is that you must correct within yourself.

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