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Fear builds walls to bar the light.

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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
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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Imperfection Men Mirrors
Everything above and below is one unity.
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Above Below Unity
People should allow themselves the opportunity to really know what the unity of God means. To grasp a part of the nondivisible union is to grasp the whole.
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Mean Opportunity People
To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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Dirty Friend Hesitate
Thou shalt love thy neighbor as thyself.” Why? Because every human being has a root in the Unity, and to reject the minutest particle of the Unity is to reject it all.
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Neighbor Roots Unity
For my sake, the entire world was created.
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Entire Sake World
From every human being there rises a light.
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Being There Humans Light
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
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Redemption Remembrance Secret
If a man has beheld evil, he may know that it was shown to him in order that he learn his own guilt and repent; for what is shown to him is also within him.
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Evil Man Order
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
Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”
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Feelings Gratitude World
We should learn and reflect to the best of our capacity, but when we reach a point where we are unable to make sense of life, we should supplant faith for understanding, and reflect again on what we do know.
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Capacity Should Understanding
As man acts, God reacts.
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Act God Man React
Fear builds walls to bar the light.
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Bars Light Wall

Fear builds walls to bar the light.

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