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Our bodies are molded rivers.

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To know a truth well, one must have fought it out.
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Fight Oneself Truth
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
Humanity is the higher meaning of our planet, the nerve that connects this part of it with the upper world, the eye it raises to heaven.
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Heaven Humanity Meaning Ourselves Planet World
The individual soul should seek for an intimate union with the soul of the universe.
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Intimate Seek Soul Universe
The artist stands on the human being as a statue does on a pedestal.
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Artist Human Stand Statue
The world must be romanticized. In this way the ordinary meaning may be found again.
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Finding Meaning Ordinary Way World
Every beloved object is the center point of a paradise.
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Object Paradise Point
Doing philosophy is only a threefold or double kind of waking–being awake–consciousness.
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Awakening Consciousness Kind Philosophy Walk
Philosophy is really nostalgia, the desire to be at home.
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Deep Desire Feeling Home Nostalgia Philosophy
We are near waking when we dream we are dreaming.
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Dreams Wake Up
When you understand how to love one thing, then you also understand how to love everything.
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Love Understand Yourself
Prayer is to religion what thinking is to philosophy. To pray is to make religion.
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Creation Philosophy Prayer Religion Thinking
Where are we really going? Always home.
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Deep Home Spiritual Travel
We are near awakening when we dream that we dream.
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Awakening Deep Dreams
The history of every individual man should be a Bible.
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History Man Religious
Everywhere we seek the Absolute, and always we find only things.
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Finding Material Search

Our bodies are molded rivers.

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