The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUSThe means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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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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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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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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