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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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To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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Dirty Friend Hesitate
Everything above and below is one unity.
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Above Below Unity
Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”
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Feelings Gratitude World
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
He who is full of joy is full of love.
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Build Joy Light
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
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
For my sake, the entire world was created.
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Entire Sake World
I am going out one door, and shall go through another.
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Doors Going Out
There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.
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God Men Rooms
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
Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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Manifestation Name Pleasure
Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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Loses Losing Yourself
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

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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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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