Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUSThere is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Become vision itself.
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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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