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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.

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

And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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Alone Flight God Godlike Life Love Men Without World
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
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
The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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Daughter Father God Long Love Nature Noble One Soul
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
It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Being Unity Virtue
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
The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Every Inscribe Letter Like Moemmet Sky Star Themselves
The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Away Beautiful Cut Here Lighter Line Make Other Pure Sculptor Shem Shown Smoothies Status Upon
Become vision itself.
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Become Itself Vison
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
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
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beast Between God Mankind Midway Poison
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
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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Being Doth Image Know Last Nature Only Soul Thing Wisdom
Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Each Of One Part Soul Universe Us
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
Withdraw into yourself and look.
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And Look Into Withdraw Yourself
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
We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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After Fit For IT Must Ourselves Run Transquilty Wait
Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beautiful Ignorance Know Ourselves Self Ugly
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 world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Good Harmonious Knowable 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
Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Demand Fit Know Object Organ
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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Attain Conduct Goal Lie Outside Right Someone Something
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

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