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

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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...

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.

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...

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

Ideas any one can mould as he wishes.

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...

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...

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been...

The world, as transformed by this creative deed, is better than it would have been...

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...

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win...

And just because God attains and wins and finds this uniqueness, all our lives win...

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,...

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...

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of...

God is One, all our lives have various and unique places in the harmony of...

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...

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed...

So far as we live and strive at all, our lives are various, are needed...

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and...

The lonely wanderer, who watches by the seashore the waves that roll between him and...

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and...

Interfere with the reality of my world, and you therefore take the very life and...

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,...

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...

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all...

I teach at Harvard that the world and the heavens, and the stars are all...

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...