Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUSGod is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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