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.
PLOTINUSKnowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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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