Religion is a monumental chapter in the history of human egotism.
WILLIAM JAMESThe power to move the world is in the subconcious mind
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Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Footnotes — little dogs yapping at the heels of the text
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All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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If you give appreciation to people, you win their goodwill. But more important than that, practicing this philosophy has made a different person of me.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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To change ones life: Start immediately. Do it flamboyantly.
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We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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No one sees further into a generalization than his own knowledge of detail extends.
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Faith means belief in something concerning which doubt is theoretically possible.
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To know an object is to lead to it through a context which the world provides
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Let everything you do be done as if it makes a difference.
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