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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.

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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
The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Good Harmonious Knowable World
Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Beautiful Beauty Before Behold Soul
The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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Beauty Because Being Desirable Identical Love
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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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
Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Bossy Earth Laways Lie Over Rot Wherever
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
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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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Action Dead Determine Does Knowledge Not Too Us
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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Each Of One Part Soul Universe Us
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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