God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
PLOTINUSIn actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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