Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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