The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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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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As in certain combinations so words and in all kinds of music; for melodies and cadences are beautiful; and minds that lift themselves above the realm of sense to a higher order are aware of beauty in the conduct of life.
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Beauty is rather a light that plays over the symmetry of things than that symmetry itself.
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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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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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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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