The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUSBeauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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