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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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.
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