Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Nature 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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