Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
PLOTINUSNature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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