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An act has no ethical quality whatever unless it be chosen out of several all equally possible.

William James

Religious awe is the same organic thrill which we feel in a forest at twilight, or in a mountain gorge.
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Mountain Religious Twilight
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
Our view of the world is truly shaped by what we decide to hear.
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Decide Shaped Views World
Since you make evil or good by your own thoughts, it is your ruling of your thoughts which proves to be your principal concern.
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Evil Prove Ruling
The mind, in short, works on the data it receives very much as the sculptor works on his block of stone.
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Block Data Mind
It is our attitude at the beginning of a difficult task which, more than anything else, will affect its successful outcome.
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Inspirational Motivational Positive
Where is it, this present? It has melted in our grasp, fled ere we could touch it, gone in the instant of becoming.
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Becoming Gone Instant
Habit is thus the enormous fly-wheel of society, its most precious conservative agent. It alone is what keeps us all within the bounds of ordinance.
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Agents Ordinance Uprising Wheels
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
There is but one unconditional commandment … to bring about the very largest total universe of good which we can see.
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Helping Others Unconditional Volunteering
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
Objective evidence and certitude are doubtless very fine ideals to play with, but where on this moonlit and dream-visited planet are they found?
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Dream Play Science
The deepest longing in the human breast is the desire for appreciation.
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Appreciation Creativity Desire
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen
… the intellect, everywhere invasive, shows everywhere its shallowing effect.
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Effects Intellect Shows
For the moment, what we attend to is reality.
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Attend Moments Reality

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