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The bearing of a child takes nine months, no matter how many women are assigned.

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As the social self can only be developed by contact with society, so the spiritual self can only be developed by contact with the spiritual world.

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The spiritual life of individuals has to be extended both vertically to God and horizontally to other souls; and the more it grows in both directions, the less merely individual and therefore more truly personal it will become.

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The note we end on is and must be the note of inexhaustible possibility and hope.

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It is immediately apparent, however, that this sense-world, this seemingly real external universe - though it may be useful and valid in other respects - cannot be the external world, but only the Self's projected picture of it. . . The evidence of the senses, then, cannot be accepted as evidence of the nature of ultimate reality; useful servants, they are dangerous guides.

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The first question here, then, is not "What is best for my soul?" nor is it even "What is most useful to humanity?" But-transcending both these limited aims-what function must this life fulfill in the great and secret economy of God?

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Mysticism is the passionate longing of the soul for God.

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