Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUSThe world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Become vision itself.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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