It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
PLOTINUSIn this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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