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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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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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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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