I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the 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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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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 means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
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