I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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