Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Become vision itself.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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 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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