It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUSMankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the 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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Become vision itself.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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