Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
PLOTINUSYou can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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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