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.
PLOTINUSIf 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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Become vision itself.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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