Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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