Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
PLOTINUSGod is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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.
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