You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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More Plotinus Quotes
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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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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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Become vision 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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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