I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSIt is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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