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.
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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Become vision itself.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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