You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Become vision itself.
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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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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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