The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
PLOTINUSWe are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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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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The vision is such that seeing and seen are one; object and act of vision have become identical.
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The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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