Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUSOne word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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