I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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More Plotinus Quotes
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Become vision itself.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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 vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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