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.
PLOTINUSPleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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