"How, then, can you see the kind of beauty that a good soul has? Go back into yourself and look. If you do not yet see…"

"We must, then, ascend to the Good, which every soul desires. If someone, then, has seen it, he knows what I mean when…"

"For the Difference in the intelligible world that produces the matter exists always. For this is the principle of mat…"

"Since Intellect is a kind of sight and a sight that is seeing, it will be [like] a potency which is actualized. So, t…"

"Often, after waking up to myself from the body, that is, externalizing myself in relation to all other things, while …"

"Let us speak of this matter, then, in the following manner, calling to god himself, not with spoken words, but by str…"

"Light, therefore, sees another light; therefore, it sees itself."

"Let there be formed in your soul, then, the image of a luminous sphere having all things in it, whether moving or sta…"

"In fact, one must not try to discover where it [the One] comes from. For there is not any ‘where’; it neither comes f…"

"It is like someone who enters the inner sanctum and leaves behind the statues of the gods in the temple. And these ar…"