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• I suspect it was...the old story of the implacable necessity of a man having honour within his own natural spirit. A man…
• The age of leaders has come and gone. You must be your own leader now. You must contain the spirit of our…
• Man is never alone. Acknowledged or unacknowledged, that which dreams through him is always there to support him from within.
• There is a way in which the collective knowledge of mankind expresses itself, for the finite individual, through mere daily living .…
• We have a mighty task before us. The earth needs our assistance.
• On the night that the Second World war was declared, there were crowds in the street. It was a summer's night and…
• Creativity and love come from the same source.
• In a profound sense every man has two halves to his being; he is not one person so much as two persons…
• Of all of men's inborn dispositions there is none more heroic than love. Love will fight no-love every inch of the way.
• The educating of the parents is really the education of the child children tend to live what is unlived in the parents,…
• The mystery of creation was always between two, in an awareness that there was always both a 'thou'and and 'I'.
• Organized religion is making Christianity political rather than making politics Christian.

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