Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSWithdraw into yourself and look.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Become vision itself.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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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 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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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