We must close our eyes and invoke a new manner of seeing…a wakefulness that is the birthright of us all, though few put it to use.
PLOTINUSEach one of us is part of the soul of the universe
More Plotinus Quotes
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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