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.
PLOTINUSThe vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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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.
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