Never 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.
PLOTINUSIntelligence 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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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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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