Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
PLOTINUSOne word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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Become vision itself.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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