Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
PLOTINUSWe are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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