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Most people live, whether physically, intellectually or morally, in a very restricted circle of their potential being.

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
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
The great thing, then, in all education, is to make our nervous system our ally instead of our enemy.
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Allies Education Enemy
If you want a quality, act as if you already had it.
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Esteem Leadership Quality Self
Deepest principle of human nature is to be appreciated.
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Appreciated Human Nature Principles
As long as there are postmen, life will have zest.
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Expectations Long Zest
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
We forget that every good that is worth possessing must be paid for in strokes of daily effort.
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Best Effort Forget Hard Work
Owing to the fact that all experience is a process, no point of view can ever be the last one
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Owing Truth Views
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
The total possible consciousness may be split into parts which co-exist but mutually ignore each other.
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Consciousness May Splits
Our beliefs are really rules for action.
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Action Belief Really Rules
To some of us the thought of God is like a sort of quiet music playing in the background of the mind.
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Mind Philosophy Quiet
The impulse to take life strivingly is indestructible in the race.
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Free Race Vagueness Will
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
We with our lives are like islands in the sea, or like trees in the forest… But the trees also commingle their roots in the darkness underground.
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Islands Roots Sea Underground

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