Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUSEach one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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