We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
PLOTINUSWe must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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