When 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.
PLOTINUSIt is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Become vision itself.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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