Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them. - Emanuel Swedenborg

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Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.

Emanuel Swedenborg

Faith is knowing and thinking truths. Charity is willing and doing them.

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Worship does not consist in prayers and in external devotion, but in a life of kindness.

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Kindness is an inner desire that makes us want to do good things even if we do not get anything in return. It is the joy of our life to do them. When we do good things from this inner desire, there is kindness in everything we think, say, want, and do.

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A person who knows all that is good and all that is true---as much as can be known---but does not resist evils, knows nothing.

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Peace has in it trust in the Lord, that He governs all things, provides all things, and leads to a good end.

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Heaven is not located on high, but where the good of love is, and this resides within a person, wherever he or she might be.

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People can not be separated from their environment. Living consciousness is not an isolated unit. Human consciousness is increasing the order of the rest of the world and has an incredible power to heal ourselves and the world: in a certain sense we make the world as such, as we wish.

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Not sense data or atoms or electrons or packets of energy, but purposes, interests, and meanings, constitute the underlying facts of human experience.

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What we call love is in its essence reverence for life.

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