We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
PLOTINUSBeauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
More Plotinus Quotes
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Become vision itself.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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