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  1. Our nature is obscured by work done by the compulsion of want or fear. The mother reveals herself in the service of her children, so our tr…
  2. Religion is not a fractional thing that can be doled out in fixed weekly or daily measures as one among various subjects in the school syll…
  3. Our creation is the modification of relationship.
  4. Religion, like poetry, is not a mere idea, it is expression. The self-expression of God is in the endless variety of creation; and our atti…
  5. Obstacles are necessary companions to expression, and we know that the positive element in language is not in its obstructiveness. Exclusiv…
  6. Science urges us to occupy by our mind the immensity of the knowable world; our spiritual teacher enjoins us to comprehend by our soul the …
  7. Objects of knowledge maintain an infinite distance from us who are the knowers. For knowledge is not union. Therefore the further world of …
  8. So our daily worship of God is not really the process of gradual acquisition of him, but the daily process of surrendering ourselves, remov…

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