In this connection, faith and experience teach us many truths by means of the short-cut of authority and by the proofs of very pleasant and agreeable feelings.
From Nicolas Malebranche
Our soul is not united to our body in the ordinary sense of these terms. It is immediately and directly united to God alone.
Prejudices are not easily got rid of as an old coat which is no longer thought of.
We see things in this material world, wherein our bodies dwell, only because our mind through its attention lives in another world, only because it contemplates the beauties of the archetypal and intelligible world which Reason contains.
You cannot of yourself move your arm or alter your position, situation, posture, do to other men good or evil, or effect the least change in the world.
You find yourself in the world, without any power, immovable as a rock, stupid, so to speak, as a log of wood.
You will not dishonor the divine perfections by judgments unworthy of them, provided you never judge of Him by yourself, provided you do not ascribe to the Creator the imperfections and limitations of created beings.
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