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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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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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
Christianity is the root of all democracy, the highest fact in the rights of men.
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Democracy Fact Man Right Root
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
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
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
We are on a mission: we are called to the cultivation of the earth .
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Cultivation Earth Mission
We touch heaven when we lay our hand on a human body!
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Body Hands Heaven Human Lie Touch
Nothing is more indispensable to true religiosity than a mediator that links us with divinity.
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Divine Link Mediation Religious True
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Character and fate are two words for the same thing.
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Character Fate Word
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
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
Love is the final end of the world’s history, the Amen of the universe.
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End History Love Universe World

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