Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
PLOTINUSThere is one and the same soul in many bodies.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Become vision itself.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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