Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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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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