I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSIn this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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