God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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