The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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