You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
PLOTINUSWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Intelligence 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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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 stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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