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.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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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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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.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Become vision itself.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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