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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
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 history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
The seat of the soul is where the inner world and the outer world meet. Where they overlap, it is in every point of the overlap.
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Philosophy Point Soul World
One can not understand language because language cannot understand itself; does not want to understand.
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Language Oneself Understand
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
All the events of our life are materials of which we can make what we will.
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Desire Event Life Material Power Willing
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
The best thing about the sciences is their philosophical ingredient, like life for an organic body. If one dephilosophizes the sciences, what remains left? Earth, air, and water.
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Body Earth Organic Philosophy Science Water
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
One should, when overwhelmed by the shadow of a giant, move aside and see if the colossal shadow isn’t merely that of a pygmy blocking out the sun.
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Block Feeling Oneself Shadow Sun
If the world is a precipitation of human nature, so to speak, then the divine world is a sublimation of the same. Both occur in one act. No precipitation without sublimation. What goes lost there in agility, is won here.
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Agility Human Lost Nature Talk Won World
Life must not be a novel that is given to us, but one that is made by us.
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Book Creation Life Novel Oneself
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission

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