As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
PLOTINUSBecome vision itself.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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