Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUSNow 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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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