Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Become vision itself.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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