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.
PLOTINUSWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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