Kendi Heykelini Yontmak: Güzelliğe Doğru İçe Çekiliş

Retire into yourself and look. And if you do not yet see yourself as beautiful, then act as the creator of a statue that must be made beautiful: he takes away here, he scrapes away there, he makes this part smooth and that part pure, until he has revealed a beautiful face upon the statue. In the same way, you too must take away whatever is superfluous and straighten whatever is crooked; cleansing all that is dark, work to make it bright. Do not stop sculpting your own statue until the god-like splendor of virtue shines out for you, and until you see temperance standing upon its holy pedestal. If you have become this, if you have seen it and have been reunited with yourself in purity, having no obstacle to becoming one in this way, nor having anything else mixed within you, but you yourself are entirely nothing but true light, not a light measured by physical size, nor limited by a shape into a smaller form, nor again expanded into a huge size through lack of bounds, but immeasurable everywhere, as being greater than every measure and better than any quantity; if you see yourself having become this, you have become the vision itself.