It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUSEach one of us is part of the soul of the universe
More Plotinus Quotes
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And this is the life of the Gods, and of Godlike men, a life without love of the world, a flight of the Alone to the Alone.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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 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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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We may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
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All things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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