As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
PLOTINUSThe vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Become vision itself.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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