Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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