The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUSIn this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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.
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