It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
PLOTINUSThe soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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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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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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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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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 are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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