The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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 this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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