It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUSWe 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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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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Become vision itself.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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