Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSNever did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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Now 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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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