"Do not go outside yourself; return into yourself. Truth dwells in the inner man, and if you find your own nature to be mutable, transcend even yourself." (De quantitate animae, 33.72)
"The truth is eternal; and because the soul is capable of apprehending eternal truth, it must possess a nature that is not confined by the limits of time and physical dissolution." (De immortalitate animae, 12.19)
"Do not go abroad. Return within yourself. In the inward man dwells truth." (Soliloquia, 1.1.2)
"The beauty of the whole is composed of parts, and in this divine arrangement, there is nothing that is not in its own way beautiful, even if it appears otherwise to the limited perception of the observer." (De ordine, 2.19.50)
"The happy life is nothing else than perfect knowledge of God. This is the ultimate perfection of the soul, the highest joy, and the only true peace."
"The beauty of the world and the orderly arrangement of everything celestial makes us confess that there is an excellent and eternal nature, which ought to be worshiped and admired by all mankind." Cicero
The people were amazed at his teaching, because he taught them as one who had authority, and not as the teachers of the law.
Here in the Gospel of Luke we get the visual of Jesus’ entry into Jerusalem on a donkey, the low being made high. Or the high being made low.
28 When Jesus finished speaking, the crowds were surprised at his teaching. 29 He taught them like someone with authority, and not like their teachers of the Law of Moses.Why would a course…
2 And after six days Jesus took with him Peter and James and John, and led them up a high mountain by themselves. And he was transfigured before them, 3 and his clothes became radiant, intensely…