Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
PLOTINUSIt is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in 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 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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