If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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 of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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 precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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