The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUSWe ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Become vision itself.
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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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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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