Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
PLOTINUSGod is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Become vision itself.
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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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for 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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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