Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Become vision itself.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for 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; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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