Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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More Plotinus Quotes
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Become vision itself.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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 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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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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