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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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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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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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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.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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