The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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