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Brahmin moth, transformed

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It is the one Reality which appears to our ignorance as a manifold universe of names and forms and changes. Like the gold of which many ornaments are made, it remains in itself unchanged. Such is Brahman, and That art Thou.


—Adi Shankara

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Just as one might have to turn the whole body round in order that the eye should see light instead of darkness, so the entire soul must be turned away from this changing world, until its eye can bear to contemplate reality and that supreme splendour which we have called the Good.


—Plato

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The unlike is joined together, and from differences results the most beautiful harmony, and all things take place by strife.

—Heraclitus of Ephesus

On Nature, Fragments 

G. T. W. Patrick, translation

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