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  1. Elizabeth Gilbert _ Eat, Pray, Love

    ... the rules of transcendence insist that you will not advance even one inch closer to divinity as long as you cling to even one last seductive thread of blame.
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  2. Iain Pears _ The Dream of Scipio

    {T}he concern of man is not his future but his present, not the world but his soul. We must be just, we must strive, we must engage ourselves with the business of the world for our own sake, because through that, and through contemplation in equal measure, our soul is purified and brought closer to the divine. ... Thought and deed conjoined are crucial. ... The attempt must be made; the outcome is irrelevant. Right action is a pale material reflection of the divine, but reflection it is, nonetheless. Define your goal and exert reason to accomplish it by virtuous action; successs or failure is secondary.
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  3. Ursula K. Le Guin _ The Left Hand of Darkness

    Well, we come here to the Fastnesses mostly to learn what questions not to ask." "But you're the Answerers!" "You don't see yet, Genry, why we perfected and practice Foretelling?" "No––" "To exhibit the perfect uselessness of knowing the answer to the wrong question.
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  4. Thomas Moore _ Care of the Soul: Guide for

    Love releases us into the realm of divine imagination, where the soul is expanded and reminded of its unearthly cravings and needs. We think that when a lover inflates his loved one he is failing to acknowledge her flaws - "Love is blind." But it may be the other way around. Love allows a person to see the true angelic nature of another person, the halo, the aureole of divinity. Certainly from the perspective of ordinary life this is madness and illusion. But if we let loose our hold on our philosophies and psychologies of enlightenment and reason, we might learn to appreciate the perspective of eternity that enters life as madness, Plato's divine frenzy.
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  5. Ted Dekker _ Thr3e

    But if you look to your Maker, you'll find enough power to kill a thousand Slaters- Dr. John Francis
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