It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUSPleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
More Plotinus Quotes
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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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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