Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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