God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Become vision itself.
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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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry 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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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