Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
PLOTINUSWhy should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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