If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
PLOTINUSAs the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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