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.
PLOTINUSKnowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Become vision itself.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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