We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Beauty addresses itself chiefly to sight, but there is a beauty for the hearing too.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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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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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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If a man could but be turned about, he would see at once God and himself and the All.
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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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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Never stop working on your statue until the divine glory of virtue shines out on you, until you see self-mastery enthroned upon its holy seat.
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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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