The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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 world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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