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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.

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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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