“Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.”

If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.

The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.

Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.

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.

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.

Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.

The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.

The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.

Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.

It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.

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.

Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.

Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.

Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.

You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.

If you want to know the theory and methods of revolution, you must take part in revolution.

The river is constantly turning and bending and you never know where it’s going to go and where you’ll wind up. Following the bend in the river and staying on your own path means that you are on the right track. Don’t let anyone deter you from that.

I have no problem if someone wants to hug me – if I know him!

I not only consider him as a friend, but if people get to know Donald Trump, I think they’ll know what I’m talking about. He’s one of the greatest human beings I’ve ever met in my life.

So I definitely take time to realize where I’m at in my life. And I know that I’m blessed.

Wit consists in knowing the resemblance of things that differ, and the difference of things that are alike.

Nothing. The Infinite knows no time, no space, no great, no small, no beginning, no end.

I didn’t know Dan Wheldon, but he was big in motorsport, and then this year I got to know Marco Simoncelli, so our thoughts are with them at the moment.