Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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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.
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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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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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