Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the 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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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