We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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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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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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