Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
PLOTINUSThe vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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 precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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