“We behold that which we are, and we are that which we behold.”

On the Last Day
Context: In this life we never behold the true state of our interior: our attention is engaged by the few serious sentiments with which we are occasionally animated; and the judgment which we form of ourselves is generally influenced by the last impressions which are made upon our minds.

Centennial Ode. Stanza 22, reported in Bartlett's Familiar Quotations, 10th ed. (1919).

Rudd's first speech as Labor leader
Speaking of John Howard's Liberal government.
2006

"The Hippopotamus" http://www.cs.rice.edu/~ssiyer/minstrels/poems/848.html

First Mansions, Ch. 2 : The Human Soul, as translated by the Benedictines of Stanbrook (1911), revised and edited by Fr. Benedict Zimmerman
Interior Castle (1577)
Context: We shall never learn to know ourselves except by endeavoring to know God; for, beholding His greatness we realize our own littleness; His purity shows us our foulness; and by meditating upon His humility we find how very far we are from being humble.

Bk. I, l. 777
Endymion (1818)

Notes Toward a Supreme Fiction (1942), It Must Be Abstract
Context: p>As a man and woman meet and love forthwith.
Perhaps there are moments of awakening,
Extreme, fortuitous, personal, in whichWe more than awaken, sit on the edge of sleep,
As on an elevation, and behold
The academies like structures in a mist.</p

On receiving the "Family of Man" Award from the Protestant Council of the City of New York (28 October 1964)