We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
PLOTINUSOne principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Become vision itself.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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