The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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 stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Become vision itself.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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