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Where are we really going? Always home.

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To get to know a truth properly, one must polemicize it.
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Oneself Properly Truth
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
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
Nature is a petrified magic city.
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City Magic Nature One Liner Perspective
To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
The Bible begins gloriously with Paradise, the symbol of youth, and ends with the everlasting kingdom, with the holy city. The history of every man should be a Bible.
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Beginning Glorious History Man Paradise Religious
A hero is one who knows how to hang on one minute longer.
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Hero Mindset Oneself Stay Time
There is but one temple in the universe, and that is the body of man.
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Body Man Perspective Temple Universe
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Play is experimenting with chance.
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Chance Experiment One Liner Play
We are more closely connected to the invisible than to the visible.
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Close Connection Path Visible
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
Our bodies are molded rivers.
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Body Ourselves River
Perceptibility is a kind of attentiveness.
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Attention Kind
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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