Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUSIntelligence 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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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