When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
PLOTINUSNow we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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