Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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