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Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.

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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
He who is full of joy is full of love.
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Build Joy Light
Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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Manifestation Name Pleasure
For my sake, the entire world was created.
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Entire Sake World
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
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
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
Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.
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Curriculum Self Esteem Unique
Everything above and below is one unity.
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Above Below Unity
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
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
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
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
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

Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.

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