Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
PLOTINUSWe 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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Become vision itself.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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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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