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.
PLOTINUSWe 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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