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We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!

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The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Life is the beginning of death. Life is for the sake of death. Death is at once the end and the beginning—at once separation and closer union of the self. Through death the reduction is complete.
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Beginning Close Complete Death Life Reduction Unity
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
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
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
Many books are longer than they seem. They have indeed no end. The boredom that they cause is truly absolute and infinite.
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Book End Infinite Reason
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
A God-intoxicated man.
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God Intoxication Man One Liner
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
Man is a sun and his senses are the planets.
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Himself Man Planet Sun
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World

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