"Your brilliance comes from your spirit. To deny it is arrogance. To accept it is humility."
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"Rules are the offspring of fear. If everyone trusted and followed their true inner spirit, the world would function flawlessly."
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"The more you live by external shoulds, the farther you drift from the power inherent in your own spirit."
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"Live your spirit's dreams, not your mind's."
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"Spirit is a more accurate measure of success than the ruler."
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"The spirit of love arranges all meetings in divine order for the highest good of all concerned."
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"It's always something.” The spirit says, “It's never anything."
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"How shall we know that we obey [God]? There is but one method by which we can know it, and that is by the inspiration of the Spirit of the Lord witnessing unto our spirit that we are His, that we love Him, and that He loves us. It is by the spirit of revelation we know this."
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"We have been given the privilege to host this presence. The Holy Spirit is in me for my sake but he is upon me for yours."
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"The spirit of the age is filled with the disdain for thinking."
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"We cannot understand what happens in the universe. What is glorious in it is united with what is full of horror. What is full of meaning is united to what is senseless. The spirit of the universe is at once creative and destructive — it creates while it destroys and destroys while it creates, and therefore it remains to us a riddle. And we must inevitably resign ourselves to this."
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"Presumably, if you see spirit at the moment it gained access, then it'll be dropped."
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"Whatsoever stirs the stagnant currents, setting these flowing in wholesome directions, promotes brisk spirits and productive thinking. The less of routine, the more of life."
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"So complex is the human spirit that it can itself scarce discern the deep springs which impel it to action."
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"The spirit of rebellion can only exist in a society where a theoretical equality conceals great factual inequalities. The problem of rebellion, therefore, has no meaning except within our own Western society."
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"The tomb in Palestine Is not the porch of spirits lingering. It is the grave of Jesus, where he lay."
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"O the joy of my spirit - it is uncaged - it darts like lightning!"
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"O the joy of my spirit--it is uncaged--it darts like lightning! It is not enough to have this globe or a certain time, I will have thousands of globes and all time."
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"When you are in-spirit (inspired) you have no need for the ego."
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"I believe we came from nowhere. We show up, and we are now here. It's all the same. It just is a question of spacing. While we are in the "now here," we all contemplate where we are going. Where we are going is back to the "nowhere." We are going to rejoin the spirit from which all things emanate. These are the big questions for me - always."
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