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.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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