Become vision itself.
PLOTINUSNature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your 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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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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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We 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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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