In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
PLOTINUSYou can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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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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Become vision itself.
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