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The Vision of Beauty O soul athirst for beauty! How will you sip beauty, if beauty abides not within your own being? Can anyone apprehend in another what abides not within himself? If somebody exclaimed: 'Yes! I do,' could it be a true discernment of reality? That way even the purblind would perceive darkness. But is darkness an image of reality worth perception -like a passion? Then why not have your eyes embalmed with beauty? If your vision is saturated with beauty, the whole universe would then seem to you as one signal retreat of beauty-of beauty, grace, of loveliness infinite!
O thirsty soul eager to sip beauty! Where would you, and where would you not sip
the divine elixir of beauty? Show me one spot where beauty abides not! Somewhere it is the beauty of form, elsewhere of
abundance; Somewhere it is the beauty of exaltation, elsewhere
of aspiration.
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