I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSWe are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Until there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
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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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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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