We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
PLOTINUSWe ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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 ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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