All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSThe Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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Become vision itself.
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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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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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