In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
PLOTINUSEach one of us is part of the soul of the universe
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Intelligence inbound with the entire of reality, not fenced off, integral to that All. […] Then it was as if One voice sounded.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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 means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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