The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUSOne 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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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