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"But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what's going on in his heart and mind."
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"A muddied diamond is better than an unsullied pebble."

"The Protestants teachings affected the view of the populace to work."

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"It is good to focus, but never forget to look around. If you focus on the wrong target, you may miss seeing all of the beauty around you."

"Life is full of beauty, when we focus on the bliss of being."

"The word "good" has many meanings. For example, if a man were to shoot his grandmother at a range of five hundred yards, I should call him a good shot, but not necessarily a good man."

"When the sun rises it casts a shadow on what does not shine as bright as it."

"But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what's going on in his heart and mind."

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"A belief in hell and the knowledge that every ambition is doomed to frustration at the hands of a skeleton have never prevented the majority of human beings from behaving as though death were no more than an unfounded rumor."

"Meanwhile, the self can stand in the way of the Not-Self, interfering with the free flow of spiritual grace, this maintaining the self in a state of blindness, and also with the flow of animal grace, which leads to the impairment of natural functions and, in the long run, of the slower processes called structure. For each individual human being, the main practical problems are these: How can I prevent my ego from eclipsing the inner light, synteresis, scintilla animae, and so perpetuating the state of unregenerate illusion and blindness? And these practical problems remain unchallenged, even if we abandon the notion of an entelechy or physiological intelligencer, of an atman or pneuma and think, instead, in terms [of] systems..."

"And the two essential and indispensable things are first of all intelligence in the right most sense of that word and goodwill or the old fashion word charity/love, I mean these two things have to go hand in hand. Intelligence and knowledge without charity or goodwill would perhaps be inhuman and goodwill or charity undirected by intelligence or knowledge would be either impotent or misguided, the two have to go together."

"But then every man is ludicrous if you look at him from outside, without taking into account what's going on in his heart and mind."

"That men do not learn very much from the lessons of history is the most important of all the lessons of history."

"Uncontrolled, the hunger and thirst after God may become an obstacle, cutting off the soul from what it desires. If a man would travel far along the mystic road, he must learn to desire God intensely but in stillness, passively and yet with all his heart and mind and strength."

"Children are remarkable for their intelligence and ardor, for their curiosity, their intolerance of shams, the clarity and ruthlessness of their vision."
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