"When you eventually see through the veils to how things really are, you will keep saying again and again, this is certainly not like we thought it was."
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"Occasionally words must serve to veil the facts. But let this happen in such a way that no one become aware of it; or, if it should be noticed, excuses must be at hand to be produced immediately."
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"I never wanted to be Marilyn - it just happened. Marilyn's like a veil I wear over Norma Jeane."
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"The adventure is always and everywhere a passage beyond the veil of the known into the unknown; the powers that watch at the boundary are dangerous; to deal with them is risky; yet for anyone with competence and courage the danger fades."
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"Certain things, certain events, seem inexplicable only for a time: up to the moment when the veil is torn aside."
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"Christian piety annihilates the egoism of the heart; worldly politeness veils and represses it."
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"Truth is hidden by the golden veil of the mundane. Pierce through this thin glittering sheath and know that you are the Sun"
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"Tell the truth through whichever veil comes to hand - but tell it."
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"The value of myth is that it takes all the things you know and restores to them the rich significance which has been hidden by the veil of familiarity."
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"I am all that hath been, and is, and shall be; and my veil no mortal has hitherto raised."
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"I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up."
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"For pilots sometimes see behind the curtain, behind the veil of gossamer velvet, and find the truth behind man, the force behind a universe."
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"Necessity is God's veil."
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"The yogin becomes aware in part of the action of the supramental power organizing the lower vehicle (ādhāra). A part of it remains behind the veil and prepares itself."
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"Secrecy is for the happy,--misery, hopeless misery, needs no veil; under a thousand suns it dares act openly."
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"He that calls a man ungrateful sums up all the veil that a man can be guilty of."
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"Photographing these flowers has made me see the world differently. It was as if I had lifted a secret veil from a subject I had loved and appreciated my whole life. I offer these photographs with the hope that they will open a new visual or meditative universe for you as well."
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"Clothes are like a gloss that sets off everything; dresser were invented more to enhance physical advantages than to veil physical defects."
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"The splendors of the firmament of time May be eclipsed, but are extinguished not; Like stars to their appointed height they climb And death is a low mist which cannot blot The brightness it may veil."
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"All practice or worship is only for taking off this veil. When that will go, you will find that the Sun of Absolute Knowledge is shining in Its own lustre."
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