Israel is moving from the realm of poetry to the realm of prose.
Forgiveness. It is beneficial to forgive but better not to condemn in the first place.
In the spiritual search doubt is beneficial, a closed mind is not. Doubt used wisely assists enlightenment; a closed mind assists ignorance.
If we cut open the bud of a beautiful rose in order to see how it is 'packed' and what it is going to look like, what sort of a bloom will we get?
The mind is acquired "human nature". The conscience is inherent "spiritual nature".
As the mind shrinks at the will of the initiate, thought flows in to fill the spaces so created.
To have knowledge and to know are two different things, and one is possible without the other.
Into this wild abyss, The womb of Nature and perhaps her grave.
You could almost say that throughout human history there are people who can either foresee consequences or who are capable of looking for information and predicting the consequences will happen, but the vast majority of people won't respond to climate change until their city is underwater, food supply is disrupted or everyone around them is dying of zoonotic disease. It's almost like someone dealing with an addiction, like you hope that the person can overcome the addiction before the addiction kills them.
It will be funny in about 10 years.
Plotinus, when he thinks about mind or intellect, the Greek word is 'nous', he thinks about something that's very different, it's much more elevated and special, more abstract, you might say more philosophical than the very broad range of mental events that we talk about in contemporary philosophy of mind.