Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUSAs 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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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 means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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