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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.

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

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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Breathe Coordinate Depend Each Event Everything Full Other Sign Thing Together World
God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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All Anyone External God He Ignorant Present So Thing Though
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Affection Aversion Courage Desire Distress Experience Fear Pleasure Seat These
The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Complete Each Of One Sent Soul Universe Us
You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Appreciate Faulty Infinite Only Reason Superior Vcan You
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
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
Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Become Before Exist Had Here Men Now Other Our Pure Soul We
Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Alone Blend Body Both Clean Derive Distinct Either Empty Enjoy Entirely Mode Soul Third Two
Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Address Beauty Chiefly Hearing Itself Slight Too
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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Above Actual Association Body Constitute IT May One Set Since Soul Thing Treat Two Whether Within
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
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
It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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All From IT Nothing One Precisely Thing Within
The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Dialectic First Instrument Intuition Mean Second Sense Third
As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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Above All Beautiful Beauty Cadence Combination Conduct Higher Kind Life Melodies Mind Sense The Themselves Word
Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Consent Image Perpetuation Should Why
One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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All Complex Creature Froma Must Make One Our Principle Single Universe
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Beauty Because Being Desirable Identical Love
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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All Thing Another Fill Full Learn Man Sign Thing Wise
Withdraw into yourself and look.
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And Look Into Withdraw Yourself
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
We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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Birthright Close Eyes Invokem Manner Must Our Put See Though Use Wakefulness
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
We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Are Drom In IT Separte Spirit
The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Before Behold Soul
It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Being Unity Virtue

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