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Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

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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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Capacity Should Understanding
If the Bible didn’t show us the weaknesses, the vulnerabilities, the sins of our heroes, we might have deep questions about their true virtue.
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Hero might Weakness
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
Fear builds walls to bar the light.
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Bars Light Wall
Mind is the foundation of man.
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Foundation Man Mind
He who is full of joy is full of love.
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Build Joy Light
The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
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Aspect Feelings Worship
Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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Loses Losing Yourself
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
There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.
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God Men Rooms
From every human being there rises a light.
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Being There Humans Light
To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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Dirty Friend Hesitate
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
Everything above and below is one unity.
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Above Below Unity
As man acts, God reacts.
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Act God Man React
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
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Redemption Remembrance Secret

Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

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