The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUSEach one of us is part of the soul of the universe
More Plotinus Quotes
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Become vision itself.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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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.
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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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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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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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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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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 has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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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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Clearly, either in the Soul alone, or in the Soul as employing the body, or in some third entity deriving from both. And for this third entity, again, there are two possible modes: it might be either a blend or a distinct form due to the blending.
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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