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.

God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.

Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.

Become vision itself.

The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.

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

Withdraw into yourself and look.