Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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