Our beliefs and our attention are the same fact.
WILLIAM JAMESThere is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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So it is with children who learn to read fluently and well: They begin to take flight into whole new worlds as effortlessly as young birds take to the sky.
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Great emergencies and crises show us how much greater our vital resources are than we had supposed.
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We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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It is only by risking our persons from one hour to another that we live at all.
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Pure experience’ is the name I gave to the immediate flux of life which furnishes the material to our later reflection with its conceptual categories.
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The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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We may be in the Universe as dogs and cats are in our libraries, seeing the books and hearing the conversation, but having no inkling of the meaning of it all.
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[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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The union of the mathematician with the poet, fervor with measure, passion with correctness, this surely is the ideal.
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Lives based on having are less free than lives based either on doing or being.
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