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"Take the wheat, not the measure in which it is contained."
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"If your relationship is draining your energy, making you lose yourself and taking your attention away from God, then you are not in a relationship but a cult. You are busy creating an idol (mini-God) for yourself."
"Without a spiritual wakefulness to divine purposes and connections in all things, we will not know things for what they truly are."
"The first lesson a watcher learns is to separate truth from illusion. Because in the world of magicks, it's the hardest thing to do."
"Sometimes what we want isn't what we need."
"I neither oblige the belief of other person, nor overhastily subscribe mine own. Nor have I stood with others computing or collating years and chronologies, lest I should be vainly curious about the time and circumstance of things, whereof the substance is so much in doubt. By this time, like one who had set out on his way by night, and travelled through a region of smooth or idle dreams, our history now arrives on the confines, where daylight and truth meet us with a clear dawn, representing to our view, though at a far distance, true colours and shapes."
"Remember, life is too short to be spent dancing with idiots."
"A rational human being of the civilized world would be like the swan that can draw the milk from a mixture of milk and water, leaving aside the water."
"Ask yourself the three things you must always ask yourself before you say anything. 1) Does this need to be said 2) 'Does this need to be said by me? 3) Does this need to be said by me now?"
"The only way for you to keep your mind straight is to run from those who would confuse you."
"The Holy Spirit will teach you, how to distinguish between right and wrong doctrines."
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"He who knows himself, knows his Lord' means, among other things, that self-deception prevents knowledge."
"EPITAPH OF JALALUDIN RUMI. When we are dead, seek not our tomb in the earth, but find it in the hearts of men."
"...most systems end up by making imagined humility into a form of vanity, so they end up with vanity just the same."
"Better to be safe than to be sorry' is a remark of value only when these are the actual alternatives."
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