The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUSIt is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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