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No one's character is completely like another'sthis infinite variety is like a mirror in which we can see the infinity of God the Creator.
Emanuel Swedenborg
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Emanuel Swedenborg
Age: 84 †
Born: 1688
Born: January 29
Died: 1772
Died: March 29
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Man, before he is being regenerated, does not even know that any internal man exists, much less is he acquainted with its nature and quality.
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Every single moment of a person's life, both of the understanding and of the will, is a new beginning.
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Angels can recognize the nature of our unique essence on the basis of nothing more than a brief conversation with us. From hearing the tone of our voice angels sense what we love and from hearing what we say, angels sense our level of understanding.
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Charity itself consists in acting justly and faithfully in whatever office, business and employment a person is engaged in.
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Times of happiness, bliss, and sheer delight intensify as the higher levels of our minds are opened within us One our life on earth is over, these levels keep rising forever.
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God created us in such a way that our inner self is in the spiritual world and our outer self is in the physical world. This was so that the spiritual part of us, which belongs in heaven, could be planted in the physical part the way a seed is planted in the ground.
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The inner self is as distinct from the outer self as heaven is from earth.
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Wherefore the brain must be looked upon as the universal and general sensory and at the same time as the universal and general motory organ of the body and finally as the universal and general laboratory of the animal spirits and the blood or of the essential juices of life.
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I am well aware that many will say that no one can possibly speak with spirits and angels so long as he lives in the body and many will say that it is all fancy, others that I relate such things in order to gain credence, and others will make other objections.
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In the spiritual body moreover, man appears such as he is with respect to love and faith, for everyone in the spiritual world is the effigy of his own love, not only as to the face and the body, but also as to the speech and the actions.
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All union is effected by love, and love is not love without trust.
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Man is an organ of life, and God alone is life.
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True charity is the desire to be useful to others with no thought of recompense.
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The sky is an enormous man.
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All religion relates to life, and the life of religion is to do good
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Love consists in desiring to give what is our own to another and feeling his delight as our own.
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