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.
PLOTINUSOne word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes 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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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