Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
PLOTINUSKnowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
More Plotinus Quotes
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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When we look outside of that on which we depend we ignore our unity; looking outward we see many faces; look inward and all is one head.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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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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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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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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You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
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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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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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From the Soul using the body as an instrument, it does not follow that the Soul must share the body’s experiences: a man does not himself feel all the experiences of the tools with which he is working.
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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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