If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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