Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
PLOTINUSWithdraw into yourself and look.
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Become vision itself.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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