There are sages who are moved to tears just by saying to themselves one word of essential truth, of abstract truth. What could have this effect? Is there some pain concealed in it? Is anything said to evoke sympathy? No, it is their ideal that is so high that they see the ideal beauty in the truth. The truth of being has become beautiful to them. Their beloved has become God, and when a word of truth is spoken in their hearing they are moved to tears. To these sages everything is a real manifestation of the beauty of God.

• If they hear music, in that music they feel God, in that music they see God.
• If they are standing before a picture, in the beauty of that picture they see their Beloved.
• If they are standing in a crowd, with all manner of faces, to them the whole picture is one harmony, one vision of the sublime, and they can see the whole beauty there.
• Whether it be desert, or sea, or sky, or land, whatever it is that is before their eyes has a vision of beauty to offer to them.