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There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

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Only the most perfect human being can design the most perfect philosophy.
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Design Human Perfection Philosophy
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
Every stage of education begins with childhood. That is why the most educated person on earth so much resembles a child.
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Appearance Beginning Childhood Earth Education Person Stage
You are alone with everything you love.
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Alone Love Yourself
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
The highest purpose of intellectual cultivation is to give a man a perfect knowledge and mastery of his own inner self.
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Cultivation Himself Intellectual Master Purpose
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
The mysterious path goes inward. It is in us, and not anywhere else, where the eternity of the worlds, the past and the future are found.
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Finding Forever Future Mystery Path World
Many things are too delicate to be thought; many more, to be spoken.
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Delicate Talk Thinking
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up

There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.

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