If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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 means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in 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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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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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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