Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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