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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.

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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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