The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUSKnowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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