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The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

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When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Man has his being in truth–if he sacrifices truth he sacrifices himself. Whoever betrays truth betrays himself. It is not a question of lying–but of acting against one’s conviction.
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Betrayal Lying Man Oneself Question Sacrifice Truth
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
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Knowledge is only one half. Faith is the other.
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Faith Knowledge Whole
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
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
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
Nature is an aeolian harp, a musical instrument whose tones are the re-echo of higher strings within us.
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Instrument Musician Nature Ourselves
Where children are, there is the golden age.
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Age Children Gold
In a work of art, chaos must shimmer through the veil of order.
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Art Chaos Discipline Order Work
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue

The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.

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