Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUSI am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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 in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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