The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUSIn this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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