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1 " 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. "
― Plotinus , The Essential Plotinus
2 " This cause, therefore, of all existing things cannot be any one of them. "
3 " When one has achieved the object of one's desires, it is evident that one's real desire was not the ignorant possession of the desired object but to know it as possessed--as actually contemplated, as within one. "
4 " One jests because one wants to contemplate. "
