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.
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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