Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUSWe ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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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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