An idea from The Enneads

At the moment of that vision there are not two things, a seer and a thing seen. “In this seeing, we neither hold an object nor trace distinction; there is no two.” Afterward it can only be told in pairs, so it slips out of words.

From The Enneads by Plotinus

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