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.
PLOTINUSEach one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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