Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PLOTINUSIn actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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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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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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