One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
PLOTINUSKnowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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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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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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