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“A plan is a real thing, and things projected are experienced. A plan once made and visualized becomes a reality along with other realities—never to be destroyed but easily to be attacked.”

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— Charles Webster Leadbeater

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— Baruch Spinoza

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— Teresa of Ávila

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