Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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