Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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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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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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One principle must make the universe a single complex living creature, one from all.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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Why should I consent to the perpetuation of the image of this image?
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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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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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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But coming to human birth and lured by the courtships of this sphere, she takes up with another love, a mortal, leaves her father and falls.
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Become vision itself.
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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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