You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
PLOTINUSBeauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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