One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
PLOTINUSWe must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for 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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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God is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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Now we are become a dual thing, no longer that which we were at first, dormant, and in a sense no longer present.
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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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