We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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 Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Become vision itself.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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