It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
PLOTINUSBecome vision itself.
More Plotinus Quotes
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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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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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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