Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUSFrom 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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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