God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUSClearly, 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
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Become vision itself.
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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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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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