The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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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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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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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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