God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUSWhen 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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