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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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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Attended Drom Effective Every Hear One Receive Side Utter Word
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Banished Be Entirely Fear Must Nothing Purified Soul
Withdraw into yourself and look.
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And Look Into Withdraw Yourself
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Demand Fit Know Object Organ
Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Become Did Eyes First Itself never See Soul Sun Unless
Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Become Dormant Dual Longer No Now Present Sense Thing
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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Entire Fence Incound Integral Intelligence One Reality Sound Voice
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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Another Birth Come Courtship Fall Father Human Leave Love Lure Mortal Sphere Take
Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Consent Image Perpetuation Should Why
I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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All Back Divine Give Myself Strive
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beast Between God Mankind Midway Poison
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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Aster Divine Enthroned Glory Holy never Seat Sel Shine Statue Stop Until Virtue Work
Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Action Dead Determine Does Knowledge Not Too Us
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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Body Experience Feel Himself Instrument Must Share Soul Took Work
Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Defeat Earth Fall Here Life Sink Thing Wing
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

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