In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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