If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
PLOTINUSIn this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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