Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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