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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Become vision itself.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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