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"Love is and remains for all time the sanctuary of freedom." |
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"Moral logic, the logic of divine wisdom,…comes about in the human being from the union – or even fusion – of the thinking of head and heart." |
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"The state of the risen Jesus Christ is the goal and the hope of the path of destiny of mankind. It is the most perfect ideal of which one could ever think or dream." |
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"The Creator is simultaneously knowing, the knower, and that which is known. In fact, His manner of knowing does not consist in Him directing His thinking to things that are outside of Him; in that He Himself thinks and is knowing. He knows of everything and sees everything which is. Nothing exists that is not one with Him and which does not subsist in His own substance. He is the prototype of every being, and all beings are in Him in their purest and complete form, so that the perfection of created beings actually exists in the mind of that Perfect One." Moses of Cordova, 'Commentary to the Zohar', Pardies Rimmonium, 55a |
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"Just as the self of the human being is the centerpoint of the plurality of manifestations of his life of soul, so is the ONE God, transcending the self, the centerpoint of the world." |
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"The being or substance of the true self of man, the breath of life, which is breathed out by God, is the breath of love, of God's love, which is the origin – and also the very being itself – of the life of the soul." |
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"It is only in love that freedom is perfect." |
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"God is eternal Being. And the true self of man is eternally coming into being as the breath of life from eternal Being. The Self of man rests in the breath of the Godhead." |
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"The decade (10 Sephiroth) of existence out of nothing has its end linked to its beginning and its beginning linked to its end, just as the flame is wedded to the live coal; because the Lord is one and there is not a second one." The Sepher Yetzirah, the Book of Creation, L. H. Frank 1877, p. 16 |
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"Intuition is the faculty of knowledge which results from instinct that is illumined by reason." |
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"The spiritual life of mankind is maintained through the breath of the Spirit…and the great religions of mankind are quite conscious of this fact." |
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"Faith is not simply a matter of holding something to be true but of experiencing the breath of eternal God, bestowing being." |
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"Every movement, even the slightest, exerts an effect ultimately upon the whole world." |
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"Through the world of temporal existence there streams the breath of the presence of eternal being." |
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"Just as the seed determines the future ways and stages of growth, so the Good Shepherd decides the ways of development of the true being of mankind and leads them along these ways." |
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""It is impossible for a peaceful and concentrated reader (i.e., for a meditative reader) of the Gospels not to begin to love the person of Jesus Christ, and also not to sense him as a working and actual reality." |
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"God…is the center of all selves." |
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"God wills it that man may fulfill his earthly experience and task, even when they have been interrupted by death." |
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"Always, in all eternity, there will exist for each and every being a creative work and a field for creative work." |
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"From the very beginning, man was created as a bearer of love. He is not simply homo sapiens, but over and above this he is potentially homo amans." |
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"The breathing of the breath of life is the kernel of the human being, eternally coming into being from God." |
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"Love is the self's life element, its substance, and its power of growth." |
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"Just as the human being needs the air to breathe for his physical life, so he also has need of breathing in God – through prayer and meditation – for his soul life." |
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"The archetype of the human being is God…'God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him' (Genesis 1:27)." |
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"Oneness or unity encompasses all numbers, and all numbers should be reduced back to unity." |