The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUSLife here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Become vision itself.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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