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.
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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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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We 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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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