The means or instrument of the first is sense; of the second, dialectic; of the third, intuition.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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 must not run after it, but we must fit ourselves for the vision and then wait tranquilly for it.
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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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Life here with the things of the earth is a sinking, a defeat, a failing of the wing.
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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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Cut away all that is excessive, straighten all that is crooked, bring light to all that is overcast, labour to make all one glow of beauty and never cease chiselling your statue.
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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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Become vision itself.
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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 sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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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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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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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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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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