Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
PLOTINUSAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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