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.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Now 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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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