Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUSIn this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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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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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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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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