Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
PLOTINUSIn actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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