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.
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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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 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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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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 are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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