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.
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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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