If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
PLOTINUSBefore we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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 demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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