And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win in our union with him the individuality which is essential to their true meaning.

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So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if...

So, as one sees, I by no means deprive my world of stubborn reality, if...

But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face...

But you are alone. Yet I never tell what you are. And if your face...

As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I...

As for you, my beloved friend, I loyally believe in your uniqueness; but whenever I...

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit...

No consensus of men can make an error erroneous. We can only find or commit...

Thinking is like loving or dying. Each of us must do it for ourselves.

Thinking is like loving or dying. Each of us must do it for ourselves.

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the...

The other aspect of idealism is the one which gives us our notion of the...

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as...

For the Absolute, as we now know, all life is individual, but is individual as...

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know,...

If I look to see what I ever did that, for all I now know,...

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal...

That this individual life of all of us is not something limited in its temporal...

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo,...

We seek true individuality and the true individuals. But we find them not. For lo,...

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world...

Our will makes constantly a sort of agreement with the world, whereby, if the world...

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in...

Unless you can find some sort of loyalty, you cannot find unity and peace in...

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you...

Listen to any musical phrase or rhythm, and grasp it as a whole, and you...

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a...

Of this our true individual life, our present life is a glimpse, a fragment, a...

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and...

God too longs; and because the Absolute Life itself, which dwells in our life, and...

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality...

For myself, I do not now know in any concrete human terms wherein my individuality...

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human...

No baseness or cruelty of treason so deep or so tragic shall enter our human...

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made...

This preparatory sort of idealism is the one that, as I just suggested, Berkeley made...

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the...

I never felt a feeling that I knew or could know to be unlike the...