I cleave the heavens and soar to the infinite. And while I rise from my own globe to others and penetrate ever further through the eternal field. That which others saw from afar, I leave far behind me.
GIORDANO BRUNOBeautiful sights arouse feelings of love, and contrary sights bring feelings of disgrace and hate. And the emotions of the soul and spirit bring something additional to the body itself, which exists under the control of the soul and the direction of the spirit.
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It may be you fear more to deliver judgment upon me than I fear judgment.
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The infinity of All ever bringing forth anew, and even as infinite space is around us, so is infinite potentiality, capacity, reception, malleability, matter.
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I understand Being in all and over all, as there is nothing without participation in Being, and there is no being without Essence. Thus nothing can be free of the Divine Presence.
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But I have reasoned deeply, and, speaking as a philosopher, since the soul is not found without body and yet is not body, it may be in one body or in another, and pass from body to body.
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Those wise men knew God to be in things, and Divinity to be latent in Nature, working and glowing differently in different subjects and succeeding through diverse physical forms, in certain arrangements, in making them participants in her, I say, in her being, in her life and intellect.
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We delight in one knowable thing, which comprehends all that is knowable; in one apprehensible, which draws together all that can be apprehended; in a single being that includes all, above all in the one which is itself the all.
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It is proof of a base and low mind for one to wish to think with the masses or majority, merely because the majority is the majority.
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Desire urges me on, while fear bridals me.
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What can be more stupid than to be in pain about future things and absent ones which at present are not felt?
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Perchance you who pronounce my sentence are in greater fear than I who receive it.
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The Divine Light is always in man, presenting itself to the senses and to the comprehension, but man rejects it.
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There is one basic cause of all effects.
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If the first button of one’s coat is wrongly buttoned, all the rest will be crooked.
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Time is the father of truth, its mother is our mind.
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God is the universal substance in existing things. He comprises all things. He is the fountain of all being. In Him exists everything that is.
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