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Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

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 Nature forms us for ourselves, not for others; to be, not to seem.

Jan 24,2024

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I sit here between heaven and earth as a little stone or a little tree sits on a huge mountain. Since I can see my

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 I sit here between heaven and earth as a little stone or a little tree sits on a huge mountain. Since I can see my

Mar 06,2023

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All things are an exchange for fire and fire for all things, as goods for gold and gold for goods.

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 All things are an exchange for fire and fire for all things, as goods for gold and gold for goods.

Mar 01,2023

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Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but

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 Man is nothing else but what he purposes, he exists only in so far as he realizes himself, he is therefore nothing else but

Jan 07,2023

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In perennial nonbeing you see mystery, and in perennial being you see appearance. Though the two are one and the same, once

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 In perennial nonbeing you see mystery, and in perennial being you see appearance. Though the two are one and the same, once

Nov 13,2022

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Everything that comes to be has some beginning, but what is eternal, being ungenerated did not have a beginning. But if it

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 Everything that comes to be has some beginning, but what is eternal, being ungenerated did not have a beginning. But if it

Jan 21,2022

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I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized

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 I will never know how you see red and you will never know how I see it. But this separation of consciousness is recognized

Feb 13,2021

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Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start

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 Nothing determines me from outside, not because nothing acts upon me, but, on the contrary, because I am from the start

Jan 01,2021

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But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

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 But above all, in order to be, never try to seem.

Dec 08,2020

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