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.
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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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 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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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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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.
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Become vision itself.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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