God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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