Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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