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• This must be our belief when we have a correct knowledge of our own self, and comprehend the true nature of everything; we must be content, and not trouble our mind with seeking a certain final cause for things that have none, or have no other final cause but their own existence, which depends on the Will of God, or, if you prefer, on the Divine Wisdom.

  Maimonides

  Self, Divine Wisdom, Mind

  Moses Maimonides, Aeterna Press (1948). “The Guide for the Perplexed”, p.447, Aeterna Press

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• No man can become perfect until he knows his true nature. And the person who knows his or her true nature cannot be an imperfect.

  Lokendra Singh

  Men, Perfect, Persons

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• We begin to ask questions, such as: "What is the purpose of life? What is my true nature? What is the source and origin of this entire creation?" When questions of this kind arise in a person's mind, his or her quest for knowledge begins.

  Tejomayananda

  Mind, Purpose, Quests

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• In all these cases, part of the reasons for failure perhaps was not analyzing and assessing the true nature of the crisis, the resources that would be required, and exaggerated expectation of what the U.N. troops can do.

  Kofi Annan

  Expectations, Troops, Would Be

  "Kofi Annan on 40 Years Trying to End War, Promote Peace at the United Nations". "PBS NewsHour" with Judy Woodruff, www.pbs.org. September 17, 2012.

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• The very essence of your Being is infinite, eternal silence. It is your true nature. It is the essence of all existence.

  Leonard Jacobson

  Essence, Silence, Infinite

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• Red RodsBefore elaborating any system of education, we must therefore create a favorable environment that will encourage the flowering of a child's natural gifts. All that is needed is to remove the obstacles. And this should be the basis of, and point of departure for, all future education. The first thing to be done, therefore, is to discover the true nature of a child and then assist him in his normal development.

  Maria Montessori

  Children, Red, Firsts

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• The only service you can do for anyone is to remind them of their true nature.

  Stephen Levine

  Can Do

  Stephen Levine, Ondrea Levine (2010). “Embracing the Beloved: Relationship as a Path of Awakening”, p.135, Anchor

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• What I experienced with the bears where I discovered my true nature within myself, was not able to be discovered or experienced in this world in society.

  Timothy Treadwell

  World, Able, Bears

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• My test for veracity has always been: How this will settle with a person who is dying? Boundlessness seemed to me to open the door to the true nature of mind that is pointed to in the Heart Sutra.

  Joan Halifax

  Heart, Doors, Mind

  "About Kazuaki Tanahashi: An Interview with Roshi Joan Halifax". Shambhala Interview, www.shambhala.com.

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• For Plotinus, what really exists are the Platonic forms, so the true nature or form of things like justice, beauty, maybe numbers, things like that, and these he associates with the intellect because they're the objects of intellect, they are things that intellect can think about.

  Peter Adamson

  Thinking, Numbers, Justice

  Source: www.abc.net.au

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• [T]he central problem of government is a religious one; and anyone who assumes that he can form his political beliefs without consulting his ethics, which have their basis in religious conviction, is deceiving himself either about the true nature of government or his moral responsibility for his actions

  H. Verlan Andersen

  Religious, Responsibility, Government

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• When we have an inner initiation into pure love, we are in contact with our true nature. Judgment of ourselves and others disappears. Compassionate, discerning wisdom then enters the equation in all of our relationships.

  Michael Beckwith

  Judgment, Our Relationship, Disappear

  Interview with Christopher Caplan, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. September 1, 2013.

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• When we cracked the genetic DNA code, opened the big Pandora's box, and it really did become possible to produce chimeras, my ears shot up. Having been brought up among the biologists and having followed various debates about ways to improve the human template and other debates about the true nature of our nature, I began seriously to wonder: What if? We hold in our hands a tool that is more powerful - for good or ill - than any we have wielded before.

  Margaret Atwood

  Powerful, Dna, Hands

  "Unscripted: Margaret Atwood Interview By Paul D. Miller". Interview with Paul D. Miller, www.marandapleasantmedia.com.

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• Our "job," our intention as spiritual beings in a body, is to express our true nature - to fully know ourselves as expressions and individuations of the Divine.

  Neale Donald Walsch

  Spiritual, Jobs, Expression

  "A Revolution Is What's Called For Here" by Neale Donald Walsch, www.marandapleasantmedia.com. April 7, 2013.

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• I am comfortable calling myself a writer of suspense, or a writer of thrillers; both terms are sort of interchangeable to me. I think that came from a sense of being at conflict with my true nature throughout my youth, and being afraid of discovery, and feeling as if I didn't belong.

  Christopher Rice

  Thinking, Discovery, Feelings

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• The core of who you are, your true nature, is Love.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Core, Who You Are

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• Inspirational Psychology includes the practical application of identifying the thoughts and mistaken beliefs that cause us pain, along with a contemplative practice to discover our true nature, which is Love.

  Lee L Jampolsky

  Pain, Practice, Psychology

  Source: www.psychologytoday.com

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• What both the state and the capitalist economy oppose is an understanding of what might be called "the true nature of things" (using the phrase without metaphysical pretensions), especially injustices and exploitative practices.

  Richard A. Falk

  Capitalist Economy, Practice, Understanding

  Source: www.truth-out.org

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• Islam is not a religion of peace. Islam is a religion of war, and most Muslims don't understand the true nature of Islam.

  Mosab Hassan Yousef

  War, Islam

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• At each moment we are expressing what we know ourselves to be. If we know ourselves very little we will express and manifest that unconsciousness of our true nature.
  If we know who and what we are very thoroughly, we will express and manifest that in what we do.
  It is all very simple.

  Adyashanti

  Simple, Littles, Moments

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• The real questions refuse to be placated. They are the questions asked most frequently and answered most inadequately, the ones that reveal their true natures slowly, reluctantly, most often against your will.

  Ingrid Bengis

  Real, Questions Asked, Refuse

  Ingrid Bengis (1973). “COMBAT IN THE EROGENOUS ZONE”

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• Anyone who renounces the world must love all men, for he renounces their world too. He thus begins to have some inkling of the true nature of man, which cannot but be loved, always assuming that one is its peer.

  Franz Kafka

  Men, History, Peers

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• It is not a struggle merely of economic theories, or forms of government or of military power. At issue is the true nature of man. Either man is the creature whom the psalmist described as a little lower than the angels ... or man is a soulless, animated machine to be enslaved, used and consumed by the state for its own glorification. It is, therefore, a struggle which goes to the roots of the human spirit, and its shadow falls across the long sweep of man's destiny.

  Dwight D. Eisenhower

  Military, Struggle, Fall

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• From a very early age, perhaps the age of five or six, I knew that when I grew up I should be a writer. Between the ages of about seventeen and twenty-four I tried to abandon this idea, but I did so with the consciousness that I was outraging my true nature and that sooner or later I should have to settle down and write books.

  George Orwell

  Book, Writing, Should Have

  George Orwell (1970). “A Collection of Essays”, p.309, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

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• The solution to staying on the right side of the fine line between using and abusing grace is repentance. The road to repentance is godly sorrow (2 Corinthians 7:10). Godly sorrow is developed when we focus on the true nature of sin as an offense against God rather than something that makes us feel guilty.

  Jerry Bridges

  Godly, Focus, Grace

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