It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
PLOTINUSI am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Become vision itself.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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