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We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

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To philosophize means to make vivid.
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Creation Philosophy
We never completely comprehend ourselves, but we can do far more than comprehend.
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Complete Ourselves Realization
The true Poet is all-knowing; he is an actual world in miniature.
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Himself Poet True World
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
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Character is perfectly educated will.
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Character Education Perfection Willing
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
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Everything at a distance turns into poetry; distant mountains, distant people, distant events; all become Romantic.
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Distance People Poetry Romantic
Philosophy can bake no bread; but she can procure for us God, Freedom, Immortality. Which, then, is more practical, Philosophy or Economy?
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Freedom God Immortal Philosophy Practical
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World
The badge of honesty is simplicity.
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Honesty One Liner Simplicity
In cheerful souls there is no wit. Wit shows a disturbance of the equipoise.
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Disturb Intelligence Smart Soul
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission

We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.

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