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.
PLOTINUSA 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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