The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUSBefore we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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