If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
PLOTINUSI am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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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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