Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
PLOTINUSKnowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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Become vision itself.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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