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Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.

William James

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.
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Consciousness Mystic Opinion
Seek out that particular mental attribute which makes you feel most deeply and vitally alive.
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Alive Attitude Authenticity
All natural happiness thus seems infected with a contradiction. The breath of the sepulchre surrounds it.
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Contradiction Happiness Natural
I don’t sing because I’m happy; I’m happy because I sing.
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Happiness Music Philosophical
A man has as many social selves as there are individuals who recognize him.
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Individual Men Self
Truth, as any dictionary will tell you, is a property of certain of our ideas. It means their agreement, as falsity means their disagreement, with reality.
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Mean Reality Truth
To study the abnormal is the best way of understanding the normal.
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Abnormal Philosophical Understanding
The greatest weapon we have to combat stress is the ability to choose our thoughts.
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Combat Stress Weapons
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
Just for today I will exercise my soul in three ways: I will do somebody a good turn and not get found out. I will do at least two things I don’t want to do
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Exercise Inspiration Somebody Two
We are all ready to be savage in some cause. The difference between a good man and a bad one is the choice of the cause.
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Choices Differences Men Savage
Religion . . . shall mean for us the feelings, acts and experiences of individual men in their solitude.
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Mean Men Solitude
Earnestness means willingness to live with energy, though energy bring pain.
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Energy Mean Pain
Success plus Self-esteem equals Pretensions.
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Congratulations Self Esteem Success
[Religion is] the attempt to be in harmony with an unseen order of things.
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Grace Order Unseen

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