Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
PLOTINUSThe world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
More Plotinus Quotes
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Become vision itself.
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