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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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