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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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Not only England, but every Englishman is an island.
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Man Thinking Universe
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way 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
Poetry heals the wounds inflicted by reason.
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Healing Poetry Reason Wound
What delights, what pleasures does your life offer you that outweigh the raptures of death?
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Death Life Offering Pleasure Weight Yourself
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 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
Building worlds is not enough for the deeper urging mind; but a loving heart sates the striving spirit.
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Build Enough Heart Mindset Spirit Strive
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
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
The brains -the thinking organs- are the world producers -nature’s genitals.
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Brain Organ Production Thinking
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
Learning is pleasurable but doing is the height of enjoyment.
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Enjoyment Learning Pleasure
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel

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