Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
PLOTINUSBeing is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Become vision itself.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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.
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