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The drunken consciousness is one bit of the mystic consciousness, and our total opinion of it must find its place in our opinion of that larger whole.

William James

The sovereign cure for worry is prayer.
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Philosophical Prayer Worry
We are thinking beings, and we cannot exclude the intellect from participating in any of our functions.
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Function Intellect Thinking
I am well aware how odd it must seem to some of you to hear me say that an idea is true so long as to believe it is profitable to our lives
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Believe Ideas Truth
Every individual existence goes out in a lonely spasm of helpless agony.
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Agony Individual Lonely
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
We hear the words we have spoken, feel our own blow as we give it, or read in the bystander’s eyes the success or failure of our conduct.
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Bystanders Eye Teaching
It seems the natural thing for us to listen whilst the Europeans talk.
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Natural Political Politics
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
There is no more miserable human being than one in whom nothing is habitual but indecision.
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Inspirational Philosophical Sadness
Genius… means little more than the faculty of perceiving in an unhabitual way.
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Creativity Mean Science
Most men have a good memory for facts connected with their own pursuits.
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Educational Memories Philosophy
Anything you may hold firmly in your imagination can be yours.
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Anything Firmly Imagination May
A paradise of inward tranquility seems to be faith’s usual result.
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Inward Paradise Usual
New habits can be launched.
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Habit New Launched
You must bring out of each word its practical cash-value, set it at work within the stream of your experience.
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Cash Experience Stream

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