Every intelligent individual wants to know what makes him tick, and yet is at once fascinated and frustrated by the fact that oneself is the most difficult of all things to know.
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Omnipotence is not knowing how everything is done; it's just doing it.
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But the attitude of faith is to let go, and become open to truth, whatever it might turn out to be.
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Some believe all that parents, tutors, and kindred believe. They take their principles by inheritance, and defend them as they would their estates, because they are born heirs to them.
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You and I are all as much continuous with the physical universe as a wave is continuous with the ocean.
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Like love, the light or guidance of truth that influences us exists only in living form, not in principles or rules or expectations or advice, however widely circulated
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