Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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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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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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