Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
PLOTINUSKnowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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