Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
PLOTINUSNature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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