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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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All Could God Himself If Man Once Se Turn Would
As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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Absorb Contemplanation Hold Longer Object Question State View
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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Depend Head Ignore Inward Look Many On One Outside Outward Until Wel When
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beautiful Ignorance Know Ourselves Self Ugly
In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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