Withdraw into yourself and look.
PLOTINUSIn this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Become vision itself.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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