All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSUntil 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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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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