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"There's a patter in these Commandments of setting things apart so that their holiness will be perceived. Every day is holy, but the Sabbath is set apart so that the holiness of time can be experienced. Every human being is worthy of honor, but the conscious discipline of honor is learned from this setting apart of the mother and father, who usually labor and are heavy laden, and may be cranky or stingy or ignorant or overbearing. Believe me, I know this can be a hard Commandment to keep. But I believe also that the rewards of obedience are great, because at the root of real honor is always the sense of the sacredness of the person who is its object."
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"Thought, if I may put it, is the man behind the possession, appearance, things we like, things we hate and the very epitome of life."
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"Your subconscious mind is the universal mind with a universal consciousness."
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"Absolute is infinite so there is no absolute truth. There is truth that you can see in infinite ways and make your own."
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"Every aspect of your life will be enlivened when you start to think and communicate with your heart and mind in cohesive coordinated harmony."
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"Think about yourself because no one has time to think about you. Everyone is busy thinking about themselves."
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"I don't claim to know everything, Wally. I only claim that everything can eventually be known."
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"I don't know who you are or where you are, but I know your deep driving desires. I am writing to you to make your life a little easier and better."
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"There are two kinds of people:those who learned to love and those who didn't."
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"Any education that doesn't allow you to think freely is not an education but a prison."
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"I came to this world to bloom and spread my love to fill the world with happiness."
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"How I wish you could have known me in my strength."
Self

"Having a sister or a friend is like sitting at night in a lighted house. Those outside can watch you if they want, but you need not see them. You simply say, "Here are the perimeters of our attention. If you prowl around under the windows till the crickets go silent, we will pull the shades. If you wish us to suffer your envious curiosity, you must permit us not to notice it." Anyone with one solid human bond is that smug, and it is the smugness as much as the comfort and safety that lonely people covet and admire."
Relationship

"And I'd pray for them. And I'd imagine peace they couldn't expect and couldn't account for descending on their illness or their quarreling or their dreams."
Spiritual

"We live on a little island of the articulable, which we tend to mistake for reality itself."
Perception

"Her name had the likeness of a name. She had the likeness of a woman, with hands but no face at all, since she never let herself see it. She had the likeness of a life, because she was all alone in it. She lived in the likeness of a house, with walls and a roof and a door that kept nothing in and nothing out."
Philosophy

"What if good institutions were in fact the product of good intentions? What if the cynicism that is supposed to be rigor and the acquisitiveness that is supposed to be realism are making us forget the origins of the greatness we lay claim to - power and wealth as secondary consequences of the progress of freedom, or, as Whitman would prefer, Democracy?"
Society

"She kept saying, "My husband will be back soon. He went for help. He'll be back." But that's the kind of lie people tell sometimes when they got only strangers to rely on. There's shame in that, so people lie."
Behavior

"Even as children they had been good in fact, but also in order to be seen as good. There was something disturbingly like hypocrisy about it all..."
Psychology

"There are a thousand thousand reasons to live this life, everyone of them sufficient."
Life

"It's better to have nothing,' the children were saying."
Life
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