Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
PLOTINUSIf someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Become vision itself.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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