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.
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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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