Sooner or later on this journey, every traveller faces the same question: Are you a human intending to be a god, or a god pretending to be human?
We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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We have all a better guide in ourselves, if we would attend to it, than any other person can be.
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