Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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 soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Become vision itself.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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