"This is the Heaven where all is transparent, and there is nothing dark or impenetrable, and all is clear and visible both within and from all sides. For light meets light, and each thing contains and sees everything in the other. And everything is everywhere, and everything is everything, and each thing is everything. And the radiance is infinite, because all is great, and even that which is small is also great. And the sun contains all the stars, and each star is the sun and all stars. In each, however, a special quality predominates, yet all things are visible in each. And the essence of each thing is reason, and it itself is reason. And each part always comes from the whole, and is at once both part and whole. For it truly is a part, but one with keen vision will see it as the whole."
— Plotinus