"Science has been seriously retarded by the study of what is not worth knowing and of what is not knowable."
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"Wisdom is knowing. Skill is know how to do it. Virtue is doing it."
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"What if you are just one bend in the road away from achieving your God-ordained purpose? If you give up on your faith now, could you live with knowing that your chance of a lifetime was only one act of faith away?"
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"So we can only know God well by knowing our iniquities. Therefore those who have known God, without knowing their wretchedness, have not glorified Him, but have glorified themselves."
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"Happiness is not on my list of priorities. I just deal with day-to-day things. If I'm happy, I'm happy – and if I'm not, I don't know the difference... Knowing that you are the person you were put on this earth to be – that's much more important than just being happy."
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"Knowledge , surely, is always of time , whereas knowing is not of time. Knowledge is from a source, from accumulation, from conclusion, while knowing is a movement."
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"Knowing what I know about the people who have come before me, and the people who came before them, and what they had to do, it changes my capacity to stay engaged, to stay productive."
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"We probably in hell already, our dumb asses not knowing."
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"We all share the wound of fragmentation. And we can all share in the cure of unification. Healing is the unification of all our forces -- the powers of being, feeling, knowing and seeing."
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"Happiness is the ability to move forward, knowing the future will be better than the past."
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"We are learning all the time - about the world and about ourselves. We learn without knowing that we are learning and we learn without effort every moment of the day. We learn what is interesting to us... and we learn from what makes sense to us, because there is nothing to learn from what confuses us except that it is confusing."
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"Joy is the experience of knowing that you are unconditionally loved."
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"Each nation knowing it has the only true religion and the only sane system of government, each despising all the others, each an ass and not suspecting it."
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"One of the things that gets me up in the morning is knowing that customer expectations are always rising, and I find that very exciting."
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"I love myself, therefore I love totally in the now, experiencing each moment as good and knowing that my future is bright, and joyous and secure, for I am a beloved child of the universe and the universe lovingly takes care of me now and forever more. And so it is."
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"...The Western 'God-image' is a representation of the collective unconscious, an archetype of the psyche that undergoes a continual process of transformation...The God image evolves through its relationship to humanity. Whoever knows God has an effect on 'him'. For the individual, knowing God, is the process of recognizing and assimilating the pressured and paradoxical contents of the self, which come to consciousness- seek incarnation- within the ego."
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"A jealous person is doubly unhappy-over what he has, which is judged inferior, and over which he has not, which is judged superior. Such a person is doubly removed from knowing the true blessing of creation."
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"They are enlightened who join in this play knowing it as play, for people suffer only because they take as serious what the gods made for fun."
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"The physician himself, if sick, actually calls in another physician, knowing that he cannot reason correctly if required to judge his own condition while suffering."
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"Opening to the power of intention, you begin knowing that conception, birth and death are all natural aspects of the energy field of creation."
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