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You have your identity when you find out, not what you can keep your mind ON, but what you can't keep your mind OFF.

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A wise man will see to it that his acts always seem voluntary and not done by compulsion, however much he may be compelled by necessity.

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Creating without claiming, Doing without taking credit, Guiding without interfering, This is Primal Virtue.

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A human-being is not a human-being while his tendencies include self-indulgence, covetousness, temper and attacking other people

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What a grand thing, to be loved! What a grander thing still, to love!

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Coincidences are spiritual puns.

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The smaller the mind the greater the conceit.

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ADAGE, n. Boned wisdom for weak teeth.

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Re-examine all that you have been told... dismiss that which insults your soul.

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The small wisdom is like water in a glass: clear, transparent, pure. The great wisdom is like the water in the sea: dark, mysterious, impenetrable.

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When God desires to destroy a thing, he entrusts its destruction to the thing itself. Every bad institution of this world ends by suicide.

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Insignificant, is the loss of relatives, wealth and fame; The loss of wisdom is the greatest loss. Insignificant, is the increase of relatives, wealth and fame; The increase of wisdom is the highest gain. Therefore, you should train yourselves thus: "We will grow in the increase of wisdom" Thus you should train yourselves.

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You are not aware of the consequences that would result (if you were granted what you desire) because what you seek might be to your detriment. (O soul) be conscious that your Master is more aware about your well-being than you are.

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Bodily decrepitude is wisdom; young We loved each other and were ignorant.

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The great pagan world of which Egypt and Greece were the last living termsonce had a vast and perhaps perfect science of itsown, a science in terms of life. In our era this science crumbled into magic and charlatanry. But even wisdom crumbles.

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Myth is an attempt to narrate a whole human experience, of which the purpose is too deep, going too deep in the blood and soul, for mental explanation or description.

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Wisdom is not finally tested by the schools, Wisdom cannot be pass'd from one having it to another not having it, Wisdom is of the soul, is not susceptible of proof, is its own proof.

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Wisdom sits with children round her knees.

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Consideration is the soil in which wisdom may be expected to grow, and strength be given to every up-springing plant of duty.

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The hours of folly are measured by the clock; but of wisdom, no clock can measure.

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