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"The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation."
Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
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"Make a journey out of self into self, O master, For by such a journey earth becomes a quarry of gold. From sourness and bitterness advance to sweetness, Even as from briny soil a thousand sorts of fruits spring up. From the sun, the pride of Tabriz, behold these miracles, For every tree gains beauty by the light of the sun.
Rumi, Mathnawf
"The idea of beauty is the fundamental idea of everything. In the world we see only distortions of the fundamental idea, but art, by imagination, may lift itself to the height of this idea. Art is therefore akin to creation."
Leo Tolstoy, What Is Art?
"The Beautiful is a manifestation of secret laws of nature, which, without its presence, would never have been revealed."
Johann Wolfgang Von Goethe, The Maxims and Reflections of Goethe
The mind is brought into harmony with the spirit and includes the body, achieving an organic, harmonious unity of all aspects of the person’s being, what we might call “biopsychosynthesis.” This is true spiritual alchemy.
Roberto Assagioli, Transpersonal Development: The Dimension Beyond Psychosynthesis
"Man is a microcosm, or a little world, because he is an extract from all the stars and planets of the whole firmament, from the earth and the elements; and so he is their quintessence."
Paracelsus, The Hermetic And Alchemical
"The spirit in man has been created in accordance with the image of beauty, so that whenever it either hears or sees anything beautiful, it may have a propensity towards it, and seek for communion with it."
Muhammad Al-Ghazali, The Alchemy of Happiness
"All good poets, epic as well as lyric, composed their beautiful poems not by art, but because they were inspired and possessed… there is no invention in him until he has been inspired and he is out of his senses and the mind is no longer in him.
Plato, A Dialouge of Plato Concerning Poetry
"Make no mistake about it, enlightenment is a destructive process. It has nothing to do with becoming better or being happier. Enlightenment is the crumbling away of untruth. It’s seeing through the facade of pretense. It’s the complete eradication of everything we imagined to be true.
Adyashanti, In the End of Your World : Uncensored Straightalk on the Nature of Enligthenment