When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
PLOTINUSWe are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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 addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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