One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUSThe world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in 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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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As 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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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