Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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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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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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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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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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Become vision itself.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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