The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUSWherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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 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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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