From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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 ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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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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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Become vision itself.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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