You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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