One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
PLOTINUSWe are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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