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.
PLOTINUSBeauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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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 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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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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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