Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUSThere is one and the same soul in many bodies.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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 must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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