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Constant reflection on metaphysical and ethical themes reaches a point where one day its accumulated weight pushes him around the corner into a mystical realization of those themes no less surely than meditation might have done.
5.7.7.2There are two kinds of knowledge: the ordinary kind which supplies information about a particular thing object or person and the higher kind which leads to wisdom. A man may correctly understand the handling of an electrical appliance and yet be a fool in the handling of his own life.
5.7.7.40Listen The metaphysics of truth has no recognized place in the academic world, as academic teaching is really based more or less on materialism.
5.7.7.45Listen Those who make philosophical writings their constant study are using life profitably.
5.7.7.125Listen If a man will constantly think about these metaphysical truths, he will develop in time the capacity to perceive them by direct intuition instead of by second-remove reflection. But to do this kind of thinking properly the mind must be made steady, poised, concentrated, and easily detached from the world.
5.7.7.137Listen Metaphysical study lifts a man into the clear keen air above personal considerations.
5.7.7.168Listen The contemplation of universal laws and metaphysical truth chastens the feelings and elevates the thoughts. This study causes man to forget himself, to turn aside from his little ego, and thus helps to clear a path to discovery of his Overself.
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