"Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing."
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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 ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order."
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"I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All."
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"Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue, 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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"Become vision itself."
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"There is one and the same soul in many bodies."
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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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"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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"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. If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All."
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"One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all."
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"Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot."
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"The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete."
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"The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful."
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"The world is knowable, harmonious, and good."
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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 someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct."
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"It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me. Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?"
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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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"Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being. 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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