Become vision itself.
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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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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 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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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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From 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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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