Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
PLOTINUSIn this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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