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If you believe in the sinfulness of the world, for instance, then you will search out from normal sense data those facts that confirm your belief. But beyond that, at other levels you also organize your mental world in such a way that attracts to yourself events that - again - will confirm your beliefs.

— Jane Roberts The Individual and the Nature of Mass Events (1981)

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You cannot love someone you do not know -- not unless you water down the definition of love so much that it becomes meaningless.

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Before health problems show up there is always a loss of self-respect or expression.

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Civilizations, both past and present represent projections of inner selfhood, and mirror the state of the mass psyche at any given time.

Psychic Politics: An Aspect Psychology Book (1976)

The message of the God of All Life is in all of nature, everywhere. If you really listen, you'll hear it.

Emir's Education In The Proper Use of Magical Powers (1979)

The waking consciousness, dear friends, is not the ego. The ego is only that portion of the waking consciousness that deals with physical manipulation.

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Be not afraid of life. Believe that life is worth living, and your belief will help create the fact.

William James The Will to Believe and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy (1897)

Question with boldness even the existence of a god; because, if there be one, he must more approve the homage of reason, than that of blindfolded fear.

Thomas Jefferson Letter to Peter Carr (1787)

I had never doubted my own abilities, but I was quite prepared to believe that "the world" would decline to recognize them.

Colin Wilson Postscript to the Outsider (1967)

Love is the active, working principle in all true faith. It is its very soul, without which it is dead. "Faith works by love."

Jonathan Edwards Dictionary of Burning Words of Brilliant Writers (1895)

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