It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUSWe ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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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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In actions, in character, in the pursuits of the intellect; and there is the beauty of the virtues.
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