I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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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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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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