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Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.

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Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.
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Curriculum Self Esteem Unique
Unless we believe that God renews creation every day, our prayers grow habitual and tedious.
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Believe Creation Prayer
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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Capacity Should Understanding
Fear builds walls to bar the light.
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Bars Light Wall
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
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
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
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Redemption Remembrance Secret
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
Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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Manifestation Name Pleasure
I am going out one door, and shall go through another.
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Doors Going Out
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
Mind is the foundation of man.
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Foundation Man Mind
The world is new to us every morning – and every man should believe he is reborn each day
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Good Morning Positive Time
For any of us to come to the understanding that we are common and unlearned is the accomplishment of a lifetime.
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Accomplishment Common Understanding
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
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
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
The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
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Aspect Feelings Worship
Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”
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Feelings Gratitude World
From every human being there rises a light.
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Being There Humans Light
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
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
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
Everything above and below is one unity.
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Above Below Unity

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