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.
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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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Become vision itself.
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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