You are the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does. If you seek yourself, you rob the lens of its transparency. You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
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Cleverness is like a lens with a very sharp focus. Wisdom is more like a wide-angle lens.
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You are... the lens in the beam. You can only receive, give, and possess the light as the lens does.
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If you seek yourself,...you rob the lens of its transparency.... You will know life and be acknowledged by it according to your degree of transparency, your capacity, that is, to vanish as an end, and remain purely as a means.
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They say a lot of women would like to see me naked, but there's not a lens long enough for that.
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The data, however, do indicate that Christians who see Jews through a 17th-century lens, believing that most are thoroughly religious, are thoroughly wrong.
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From the first moment I handled my lens with a tender ardour.
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Truth is seen through the lens of your beliefs.
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