Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
PLOTINUSIf a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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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.
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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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