It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
PLOTINUSFrom 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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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