God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUSIntelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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 in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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