Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
PLOTINUSAs 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.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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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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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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