The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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