One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUSThe vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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.
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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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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