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• Every true artist feels that he is touching transcendental truths; that his images are shadows of things seen through the veil.

  Gilbert K. Chesterton

  Artist, Touching, Shadow

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• Each atom hides beneath its veil The soul amazing beauty of the Beloved's face.

  Mahmud Shabistari

  Spiritual, Soul, Atoms

  Mahmud Shabistari (2002). “The Secret Rose Garden”, p.14, Red Wheel/Weiser

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• The last of Summer is Delight -
  Deterred by Retrospect.
  'Tis Ecstasy's revealed Review -
  Enchantment's Syndicate.
  
  To meet it - nameless as it is -
  Without celestial Mail -
  Audacious as without a Knock
  To walk within the Veil.

  Emily Dickinson

  Summer, Enchantment, Delight

  Emily Dickinson, “The Last Of Summer Is Delight”

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• Science is the art of creating suitable illusions which the fool believes or argues against, but the wise man enjoys for their beauty or their ingenuity, without being blind to the fact that they are human veils and curtains concealing the abysmal darkness of the unknowable

  Carl Jung

  Wise, Art, Believe

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• All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.

  Benjamin Disraeli

  Philosophy, Struggle, Dark

  Benjamin Disraeli (2016). “Delphi Complete Works of Benjamin Disraeli (Illustrated)”, p.1153, Delphi Classics

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• Religion blushing, veils her sacred fires, And unawares Morality expires.

  Alexander Pope

  Fire, Religion, Sacred

  'The Dunciad' (1742) bk. 4, l. 649

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• A poet dares to be just so clear and no clearer; he approaches lucid ground warily, like a mariner who is determined not to scrape his bottom on anything solid. A poet's pleasure is to withhold a little of his meaning, to intensify by mystification. He unzips the veil from beauty, but does not remove it. A poet utterly clear is a trifle glaring.

  E. B. White

  Poetry, Doe, Littles

  1942 One Man's Meat, 'Poetr y'.

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• Speaking as somebody with three sisters and a very largely female Muslim family, there is not a single woman I know in my family or in their friends who would have accepted the wearing of a veil.

  Salman Rushdie

  Female, Three, Single Women

  "Rushdie backs Straw in row over Muslim veils" by Riazat Butt, www.theguardian.com. October 11, 2006.

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• Then Jesus changed the situation. When he paid for our sins on the cross, the veil in the temple that symbolized our separation from God was split from top to bottom, indicating that direct access to God was once again available.

  Rick Warren

  Jesus, Splits, Temples

  FaceBook post by Pastor Rick Warren from Jun 26, 2016

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• Occasionally God rips aside the veil, and you begin to see this very fact: All things happen for you. All things. Everything is knit together.

  Timothy Keller

  Rip, Together, Facts

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• But there is no veil like light--no adamantine armor against hurt like the truth.

  George MacDonald

  Hurt, Truth, Light

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• Now I am nothing but a veil; all my body is a veil beneath which a child sleeps.

  Gabriela Mistral

  Children, Pregnancy, Sleep

  Roger Martin du Gard, Boris Leonidovich Pasternak, Gabriela Mistral (1971). “Roger Martin du Gard: Gabriela Mistral ; Boris Pasternak”

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• Open the gates of wisdom, tear the veil of ignorance, enter the abode of Divine Bliss. Rest in peace forever.

  Sathya Sai Baba

  Rest In Peace, Ignorance, Forever

  FaceBook post by Sri Sathya Sai Baba from Apr 16, 2017

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• We are spirits clad in veils.

  Christopher Pearse Cranch

  Philosophy, Philosophical, Spirit

  Christopher Pearse Cranch, “Gnosis”

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• The wonderful thing is that the soul already knows to some extent that there is something behind the veil, the veil of perplexity, that there is something to be sought for in the highest spheres of life, that there is some beauty to be seen, that there is Someone to be known who is knowable.

  Hazrat Inayat Khan

  Life, Beauty, Soul

  Hazrat Inayat Khan “The Sayings of Hazrat Inayat Khan”, Library of Alexandria

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• This is love: to fly toward a secret sky

  Rumi

  Valentines Day, Sky, Making Love

  Jalāl al-Dīn Rūmī (Maulana), Jelaluddin Rumi, Kabir Helminski, Andrew Harvey (2005). “The Rumi Collection: An Anthology of Translations of Mevlâna Jalâluddin Rumi”, p.53, Shambhala Publications

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• When will the veil be lifted that casts so black a night over the universe? God of Israel, lift at last the gloom: For how long will you be hidden?

  Jean Racine

  God, Faith, Night

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• Of darkness visible so much be lent, as half to show, half veil, the deep intent.

  Alexander Pope

  Darkness, Deceit, Half

  Alexander Pope, William Roscoe (1847). “The works of Alexander Pope, esq., with notes and illustrations, by himself and others. To which are added, a new life of the author, an Estimate of his poetical character and writings, and occasional remarks by William Roscoe, esq”, p.312

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• I am whatever was, or is, or will be; and my veil no mortal ever took up.

  Plutarch

  Mortals

  Plutarch (1871). “Plutarch's Morals”, p.72

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• A life that is truly lived is constantly burning away the veils of illusion, gradually revealing the essence of the individual.

  Marion Woodman

  Essence, Burning, Illusion

  Marion Woodman (1985). “The Pregnant Virgin: A Process of Psychological Transformation”

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• We know so little of the why, what the universe is, what infinity is. The veil around us is very fragile.

  Conor McPherson

  Littles, Infinity, Knows

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• You go into Afghanistan, you got guys who slap women around for five years because they didn't wear a veil. You know, guys like that ain't got no manhood left anyway. So it's a hell of a lot of fun to shoot them. Actually, it’s a lot of fun to fight. You know, it’s a hell of a hoot. It’s fun to shoot some people. I’ll be right up front with you — I like brawling.

  James Mattis

  Fun, Military, Marine

  "Everything You Need to Know About Gen. James Mattis" by Luis Martinez, abcnews.go.com. December 1, 2016.

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• Love is the beginning, the middle, and the end of the pathway of discipleship. It comforts, counsels, cures, and consoles. It leads us through valleys of darkness and through the veil of death. In the end love leads us to the glory and grandeur of eternal life.

  Joseph B. Wirthlin

  Love Is, Darkness, Pathways

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• There is a veil between the Supermind above and the lower Prakriti below - the veil of ingrained formations. This veil may completely withdraw or be partially withdrawn. Thus even if there is some little opening, with the contact of Light from above the lower nature will get slowly changed.

  Sri Aurobindo

  Light, May, Littles

  Source: overmanfoundation.wordpress.com

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• Plastic surgery is a postmodern veil.

  Nawal El Saadawi

  Plastic, Surgery, Postmodern

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