Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
PLOTINUSThere is one and the same soul in many bodies.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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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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 vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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