The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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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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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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Become vision itself.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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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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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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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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We must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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