Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
PLOTINUSKnowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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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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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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