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Only man, with the capability to transcend the blind urge to live and reach the high plane of intelligent art, possesses the self-conscious insight into the meanings of meanings. 160:1.5

Enhancing universe insight by adjusting socialization techniques to grasp eternal goal-meanings in seemingly insignificant activities furthers the Paradise-ascension career. 43:8.10

Humor can help achieve insight by providing a safety valve for pressures of self-contemplation and by lessening the impact of unexpected facts or truths. 48:4.18

Insight can be exercised before experimentation, allowing for learning from looking as well as from leaping. 16:7.2-3

Only a poet can discern poetry in the commonplace prose of routine existence. 48:7.22

Spirit-indwelt man has the power of prevision into the future, visualizing forward-looking and progressive attitudes that are truly human. 12:5.10

Insight precedes foresight in the cosmic economy, with life coming before evaluation or interpretation in all concepts of selfhood. 112:2.6

Stars are best discerned from the lonely isolation of experiential depths, not from the illuminated and ecstatic mountain tops. 48:7.15

Personality's finite dimensions encompass cosmic length meaning, depth value, breadth insight. 112:1.10

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