In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
PLOTINUSWithdraw 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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry 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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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