You can only apprehend the Infinite by a faculty that is superior to reason.
PLOTINUSGod is not external to anyone, but is present with all things, though they are ignorant that He is so.
More Plotinus Quotes
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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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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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Never did eye see the sun unless it had first become sun-like, and never can the soul have vision of the First Beauty unless itself be beautiful.
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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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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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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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We are not separated from spirit, we are in it.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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Knowing demands the organ fitted to the object.
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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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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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It is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
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A dogma recognized throughout antiquity… (that) the soul expiates its sins in the darkness of the infernal regions and… afterwards… passes into new bodies, there to undergo new trials.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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