It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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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 Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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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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