“The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky. Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.”
“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.”
“Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful; the sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.”
“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.”
“Knowledge has three degrees - opinion, science, illumination. The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.”
“Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.”
“Self-knowledge reveals to the soul that its natural motion is not, if uninterrupted, in a straight line, but circular, as around some inner object, about a center, the point to which it owes its origin.”
“We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it, as the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.”
“The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.”
“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.”
“In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view; the vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.”
“We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order...”
“Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe.”
“And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.”
“I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.”
“Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.”
“All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.”
“Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.”
“The world is finite, harmonious, and good.”
“Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.”
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