It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
PLOTINUSClearly, 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.
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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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