Quote #18
External nature is only internal nature writ large.
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- When we really begin to live in the world, then we understand what is meant by brotherhood or mankind, and not before.
- The world is the great gymnasium where we come to make ourselves strong.
- This life is short, the vanities of the world are transient, but they alone live who live for others, the rest are more dead than alive.
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- The will is not free - it is a phenomenon bound by cause and effect - but there is something behind the will which is free.
- Strength is Life, Weakness is death
- The more we come out and do good to others, the more our hearts will be purified, and God will be in them.