Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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