Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
PLOTINUSWe must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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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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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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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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 must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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