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What does it mean?
Move from shadows and illusions to truth.
In plain terms
Seek truth instead of living in illusions.
What can you take from it?
Pursue truth over appearances.

Where it applies

  • education
  • personal growth
  • philosophy

Putting it to work

  • seek evidence
  • question assumptions
  • study

Questions to consider

  • What illusions do you hold?
  • How do you seek truth?

Another view

Truth can sometimes be painful to face.

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  3. It is thy very energy of thought Which keeps thee from thy God.

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