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There is a dearth of genuine philosophy of life and of a convincing interpretation of spiritual reality.

— Rufus Jones What Will Get Us Ready (1944)

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There has always been in the Society of Friends a group of persons pledged unswervingly to the ideal.

Quakers in the American Colonies (1911)

If we are to prove that Fox really struck a jet of living water, we ourselves must tap that same fountain.

Living in the Light: Some Quaker Pioneers of the 20th Century Vol. I (1984)

We shall not be able to rebuild our shattered world until we recover our faith in eternal realities, and we shall not do that until we discover spirit within ourselves.

Christian Mystics (1999)

No person can ever hope to gain an adequate idea of the religious movement which has been called by the name of Quakerism until he has discovered what is meant by the "Inner Light."

Social Law in the Spiritual World (1904)

The time has passed for “the complacent assumption of an unchanged world.”

What Will Get Us Ready (1944)

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The most merciful thing in the world, I think, is the inability of the human mind to correlate all its contents.

H. P. Lovecraft The Call of Cthulhu (1926)

There is no governor anywhere; you are all absolutely free. There is no restraint that cannot be escaped.

Robert Anton Wilson

Every morning
I shall concern myself anew about the boundary
Between the love-deed-Yes and the power-deed-No
And pressing forward honor reality.

Martin Buber Power and Love (1926)

In the province of the mind, what one believes to be true is true or becomes true, within certain limits to be found experientially and experimentally. These limits are further beliefs to be transcended.

John C. Lilly The Human Biocomputer (1974)

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