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.
PLOTINUSWithdraw into yourself and look.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Become vision itself.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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 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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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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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