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.
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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Intelligence 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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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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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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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Become vision itself.
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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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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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 ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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