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.
PLOTINUSBeing is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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