Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
PLOTINUSAnd 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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 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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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 of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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