The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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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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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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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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