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Nature is a mutable cloud which is always and never the same. She casts the same thought into troops of forms, as a poet makes twenty fables with one moral. Through the bruteness and toughness of matter, a subtle spirit bends all things to its own will. The adamant streams into soft but precise form before it, and whilst I look at it its outline and texture are changed again. Nothing is so fleeting as form; yet never does it quite deny itself.
- Ralph Waldo Emerson
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To me this says, in part, religion is where you find it but may appear as in different form ... also that there is a spirit within and without us that will ensure we are on the right path.
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Socrates Allegory Of The Cave
Whereas, our argument shows that the power and capacity of learning exists in the soul already; and that just as the eye was unable to turn from darkness to light without the whole body, so too the instrument of knowledge can only by the movement of the whole soul be turned from the world of becoming into that of being, and learn by degrees to endure the sight of being, and of the brightest and best of being, or in other words, of the good.
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Language comes short of the mark and man deforms by "interpretation" those words that may even come close. Even so, the right spirit is in the words and the interpretation is already inside you once you get past the clouded bastardization of organized religion. I've looked all my life and still haven't found all of what I need. Modesty is a virtue in this regard and all those who think they know everthing they need to know about their existence are fooling nobody but themselves.
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