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.
PLOTINUSWe are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Become vision itself.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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