Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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 stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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