God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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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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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