We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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 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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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 stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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Become vision itself.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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