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.
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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