God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUSWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Become vision itself.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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