I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSThe world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
More Plotinus Quotes
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Become vision itself.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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 may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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