We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from 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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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