I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSGod is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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