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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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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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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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