Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
PLOTINUSNature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
More Plotinus Quotes
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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