Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Become vision itself.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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