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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
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
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
There is no room for God in the man who is filled with himself.
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God Men Rooms
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
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
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
Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.
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Curriculum Self Esteem Unique
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
Everything above and below is one unity.
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Above Below Unity
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
For my sake, the entire world was created.
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Entire Sake World
To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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Dirty Friend Hesitate
I am going out one door, and shall go through another.
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Doors Going Out
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

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