In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
PLOTINUSUntil 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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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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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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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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 stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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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 bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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