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"Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know."
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"Wisdom begins in knowing the self."
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"To attempt to know myself 'apart' from God is to choose to know nothing more than 'a part' of myself."
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"There are many things that you can avoid by just knowing something. Knowledge of self is the most notable knowledge I pursue. By knowing myself, I avoided dead dreams and a meaningless life."
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"The greatest person to know in life is yourself. There's no one who will treat you better."
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"He hath always but slightly, known himself...King Lear."
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"Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know."
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"You have to know your own mind inside out before you can know the minds of others."
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"To know oneself, one should assert oneself."
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"You need to know things the others don't know. It's what no one knows about you that allows you to know yourself."
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"The more you know yourself, the less you depend on external validation."
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"No work or love will flourish out of guilt, fear, or hollowness of heart, just as no valid plans for the future can be made by those who have no capacity for living now."
Love
"Faith is a state of openness or trust."
Faith
"We cannot be more sensitive to pleasure without being more sensitive to pain."
Being
"If you study the writings of the mystics, you will always find things in them that appear to be paradoxes, as in Zen, particularly."
Philosophy
"But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be."
Attitude
"To have faith is to trust yourself to the water. When you swim you don't grab hold of the water, because if you do you will sink and drown. Instead you relax, and float."
Faith
"And the attitude of faith is the very opposite of clinging to belief, of holding on."
Attitude
"Religion is not a department of life; it is something that enters into the whole of it."
Religion
"In known history, nobody has had such capacity for altering the universe than the people of the United States of America. And nobody has gone about it in such an aggressive way."
History
"But to me nothing - the negative, the empty - is exceedingly powerful."
Negative
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