"It's only by forgetting yourself that you draw near to God."
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"After all, if it comes to that, there is really neither Ogun nor Jesus! There are only mystified forms of our consciousness."
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"We should be a mirror of being: we are God in miniature."
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"In every ascetic morality man worships a part of himself as God and for that he needs to diabolize the other part."
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"We grant God the possession of all the qualities of mind except the one that keeps the others healthy; that watches over their dignity; that focuses their vision true--humor."
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"Respectable society believed in God in order to avoid having to speak about him."
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"I've always hated religion. It's the most guilt-ridden, horrible thing. 'My God is better than yours, and I'm going to fight you and kill you because of your religion.' I think it's just a sick idea. You know how people are color-blind when it comes to other people - I mean, hopefully they are. Well, I'm religious-blind."
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"The man who has submitted his will and purposes entirely to God, carries God with him in all his works and in all circumstances."
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"I have a capacity in my soul for taking in God entirely. I am as sure as I live that nothing is so near to me as God."
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"If I should ever die, God forbid, let this be my epitaph: THE ONLY PROOF HE NEEDED FOR THE EXISTENCE OF GOD WAS MUSIC"
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"...conversation can be as mutually incomprehensible as foreign languages. We need the different and complementary perspectives of the various yogas - and ideally of all religions - not only to reach God but to reach each other."
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"Everyone who believes in God at all believes that he knows what you and I are going to do tomorrow."
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"Neither God nor Being nor any other word can define or explain the ineffable reality behind the word, so the only important question is whether the word is a help or a hindrance in enabling you to experience That toward which it points."
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"Then, accepting the help of God and of God's signs, he allows his personal legend to guide him toward the tasks that life has reserved for him."
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"We shall yet acknowledge His wisdom and our own error therein."
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"Surely He intends some great good to follow this mighty convulsion which no mortal could make, and no mortal could stay."
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"I rarely speak about God. To God yes. I protest against Him. I shout at Him. But open discourse about the qualities of God, about the problems that God imposes, theodicy, no. And yet He is there, in silence, in filigree."
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"The mole rat is the only rodent born without a fur coat. With a good lawyer, someone would pay for that little oversight."
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"Man can try to name love, showering upon it all the names at his command, and still he will involve himself in endless self deceptions. If he possesses a grain of wisdom he will lay down his arms and name the unknown by the more unknown - ignotum per ignotius - that is by the name of God."
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"I imagine it great vanity in me to suppose that the Supremely Perfect does in the least regard such an inconsiderable nothing as man. More especially, since it is impossible for me to have any positive, clear idea of that which is infinite and incomprehensible, I cannot conceive otherwise than that He, the Infinite Father, expects or requires no worship or praise from us, but that He is even infinitely above it."
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