We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
PLOTINUSNow we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
More Plotinus Quotes
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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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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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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