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.
PLOTINUSEverything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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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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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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