We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PLOTINUSThe vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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