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.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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