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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.

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Marilyn Monroe Paulo Coelho Abraham Lincoln C. S. Lewis Khalil Gibran Charlie Chaplin Gautama Buddha Isaac Newton

Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Degree Knowledge Opinion Science Three
If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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All Could God Himself If Man Once Se Turn Would
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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Being Doth Image Know Last Nature Only Soul Thing Wisdom
Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Beauty Because Being Desirable Identical Love
Withdraw into yourself and look.
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And Look Into Withdraw Yourself
Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beast Between God Mankind Midway Poison
Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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Breathe Coordinate Depend Each Event Everything Full Other Sign Thing Together World
It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Around Bad Contemed Drag Enough Image Imprisoned Me Nature
We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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After Fit For IT Must Ourselves Run Transquilty Wait
All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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All Thing Another Fill Full Learn Man Sign Thing Wise
The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Become Identical Object One Se Seen Such Vision
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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Beautiful Beauty Become Did Eyes First Itself never See Soul Sun Unless
We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Above Actual Association Body Constitute IT May One Set Since Soul Thing Treat Two Whether Within
In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Absorb Contemplanation Hold Longer Object Question State View
Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Banished Be Entirely Fear Must Nothing Purified Soul
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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Another Birth Come Courtship Fall Father Human Leave Love Lure Mortal Sphere Take

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