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He taught a balanced way of life, a philosophy with which a human can meet problems arising from an ever-changing universe. He said humankind is still evolving, in a process which will never end. He said this evolution moves on changing
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“Whatever plane our consciousness may be acting in, both we and the things belonging to that plane are, for the time being, our only realities. As we rise in the scale of development we perceive that during the stages through which we have passed we mistook shadows for realities, and the upward progress of the Ego is a series of progressive awakenings, each advance bringing with it the idea that now, at last, we have reached "reality"; but only when we shall have reached the absolute Consciousness, and blended our own with it, shall we be free from the delusions produced by Maya [illusion]. ”
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“The past attracts me, the present frightens me, because the future is death.”
― The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One
― The Complete Short Stories of Guy de Maupassant, Part One

“Everything is false, everything is possible, everything is doubtful.”
― Complete Works
― Complete Works

“...A strange art – music – the most poetic and precise of all the arts, vague as a dream and precise as algebra.”
― Complete Works
― Complete Works

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