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.
PLOTINUSEverything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from 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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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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 stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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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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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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