“In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.”

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.

Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.

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.

Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?

A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.

It makes you more choosy and also more receptive to absorb anything for 15 seconds.

Some programming languages manage to absorb change, but withstand progress.

The ability to absorb a book and make someone else’s words and story your own was exactly was I was doing on stage.

Most of the things you absorb you will ultimately secrete.

And Egypt? What is Egypt strenght?her resilience ?her ability to absorb poeple and events into the pores of her being? is that true or is it just a consolation ?

Simply performing devotional activities will not impart devotion to others but our consciousness should be absorbed.

The purpose of art is to reflect new emerging values and to define the new heroes and heroines so that people can absorb them into their perceptions.

Her soul absorbs all beauty in nature and then reflects all within.