Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUSThe vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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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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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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