The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PLOTINUSBeing is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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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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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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