The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PLOTINUSWhy should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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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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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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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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