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.
PLOTINUSIn actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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 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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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