We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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 vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Become vision itself.
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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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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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