Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PLOTINUSIntelligence 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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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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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 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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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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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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 must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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