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.
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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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