Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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 ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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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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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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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