The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUSWithdraw into yourself and look.
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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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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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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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 ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order; knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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