Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
PLOTINUSWe are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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As the eye waits on the rising of the Sun which in its own time appears above the horizon and gives itself to our sight.
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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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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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