One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUSYou 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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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