We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
PLOTINUSAs in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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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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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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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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