It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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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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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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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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