The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUSWe 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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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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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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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