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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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Become vision itself.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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