I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSNature 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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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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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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 may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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