Withdraw into yourself and look.
PLOTINUSClearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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 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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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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