All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSBefore we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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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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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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