If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
PLOTINUSOne word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Become vision itself.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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