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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
PlotinusPlotinus Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
PlotinusPlotinus The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
PlotinusPlotinus Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
PlotinusPlotinus We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
PlotinusPlotinus The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
PlotinusPlotinus The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
PlotinusPlotinus The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
PlotinusPlotinus 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.
PlotinusPlotinus 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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