We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PLOTINUSWe must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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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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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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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 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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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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