Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
PLOTINUSThe world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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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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