Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUSWe 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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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