I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSMankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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