Withdraw into yourself and look.
PLOTINUSAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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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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 did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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