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.
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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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 stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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