The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUSKnowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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