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Quote by Saint Augustine
My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself f

My mind withdrew its thoughts from experience, extracting itself from the contradictory throng of sensuous images, that it might find out what that light was wherein it was bathed… And thus, with the flash of one hurried glance, it attained to the vision of That Which Is. – Saint Augustine

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If you would attain to what you are not yet, you must always be displeased by what you are. For where you are pleased with yourself there you have remained. Keep adding, keep walking, keep advancing. – Saint Augustine

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Pray as though everything depended on God. Work as though everything depended on you. – Saint Augustine

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Good judgement comes from experience. Experience comes from bad judgement. – Jim Horning

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The physical world, including our bodies, is a response of the observer. We create our bodies as we create the experience of our world. – Deepak Chopra

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