The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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 Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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