Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Nature 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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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