One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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