Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PLOTINUSOne word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Become vision itself.
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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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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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