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.
PLOTINUSWhy should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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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 are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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