Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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