Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSEach one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Become vision itself.
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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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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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