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Mind is the foundation of man.

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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
To pull a friend out of the mire, don’t hesitate to get dirty.
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Dirty Friend Hesitate
Whenever feeling downcast, each person should vitally remember, “For my sake, the entire world was created.”
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Feelings Gratitude World
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
Pleasures are manifestations of God’s name.
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Manifestation Name Pleasure
The central aspect of worship is the feeling of being at one with God.
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Aspect Feelings Worship
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 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
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
Mind is the foundation of man.
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Foundation Man Mind
Before you can find God, you must lose yourself.
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Loses Losing Yourself
Forgetfulness leads to exile while remembrance is the secret of redemption.
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Redemption Remembrance Secret
Everybody is unique. Compare not yourself with anybody else lest you spoil God’s curriculum.
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Curriculum Self Esteem Unique
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

Mind is the foundation of man.

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