God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUSWithdraw into yourself and look.
More Plotinus Quotes
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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