Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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