It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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