All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSBeing is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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