It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUSWe are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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Become vision itself.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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