All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSThe vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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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Become vision itself.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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