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Love of consciousness evokes the same in response Love of feeling evokes the opposite Love of body depends only on type and polarity.

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Patience is the mother of will.
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Mom One Liner Patience Willing
The only type of sexual relations possible are those with someone who is as advanced and capable as oneself.
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Advance Capability Oneself Possible Relation Sexuality Type
It is only by grounding our awareness in the living sensation of our bodies that the ‘I Am,’ our real presence, can awaken.
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Aware Body Ground Live Myself Presence Reality
The evolution of man is the evolution of his consciousness, and ‘consciousness’ cannot evolve unconsciously. The evolution of man is the evolution of his will, and ‘will’ cannot evolve involuntarily.
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Consciousness Evolution Himself Man Willing
The first reason for people’s slavery is our ignorance, and above all, our ignorance of ourselves.
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Ignorance Ourselves People Reason Slave
If you want to lose your faith, make friends with a priest.
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Faith Friendship Lose Priest
Man must use what he has, not hope for what is not.
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Himself Hope Man
My way is to develop the hidden potentialities of man; a way that is against Nature and against God.
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Development God Hide Nature Potential Way
Without self knowledge, without understanding the working and functions of his machine, man cannot be free, he cannot govern himself and he will always remain a slave.
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Freedom Function Government Himself Knowledge Slave Understand Work
It is the same with everything else, with food, with pleasures, with sleep; with everything there is a limit to what is necessary. After this “sin” begins. This is something that must be grasped, a “sin” is something which is not necessary.
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Beginning Food Limitation Necessary Pleasure Sin Sleep
Real love is a cosmic force which goes through us. If we crystallize it, it becomes the greatest power in the world.
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Cosmos Force Greatness Love Power Reality World
It is very difficult also to sacrifice one’s suffering. A man will renounce any pleasures you like but he will not give up his suffering.
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Difficult Give Up Himself Pleasure Sacrifice Suffering
Wish’ is the most powerful thing in the world. Higher than God.
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God High Powerful World
Awakening begins when a man realizes that he is going nowhere and does not know where to go.
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Awake Beginning Man Realize Unknown
I ask you to believe nothing that you cannot verify for yourself.
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Believe Verify Yourself
It is the greatest mistake to think that man is always one and the same. A man is never the same for long. He is continually changing. He seldom remains the same even for half an hour.
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Change Greatness Mistake Oneself Thinking

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