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I myself believe that the evidence for God lies primarily in inner personal experiences.

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
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
Each of us is in fact what he is almost exclusively by virtue of his imitative-ness.
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Facts Models Role Virtue
We can change our circumstances by a mere change of our attitude.
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Attitude Circumstances Mere
The deepest hunger in human beings is the desire to be appreciated.
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Appreciate Desire Friendship
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
When you have broken the reality into concepts you never can reconstruct it in its wholeness.
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Broken Concepts Reality
True ideas are those that we can assimilate, validate, corroborate, and verify. False ideas are those that we cannot
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Ideas Truth Verify
There is but one cause of human failure. And that is man’s lack of faith in his true Self.
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Esteem Failure Inspirational Self
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
That which is most personal, is most interesting.
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Interesting Most Personal
What would be better for us to believe!’ This sounds very like a definition of truth
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Believe Sound Truth
When thoughts do not neutralize an undesirable emotion, action will.
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Action Emotion Inspiration
The lunatic’s visions of horror are all drawn from the material of daily fact.
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Facts Insanity Vision
The difference between objective and subjective extension is one of relation to a context solely.
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Differences Extensions Relation
Keep the faculty of effort alive in you by a little gratuitous exercise every day.
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Effort Exercise Life Love

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