I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Become vision itself.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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