Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
PLOTINUSGod is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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