Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUSFear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
PLOTINUSWithdraw into yourself and look.
PLOTINUSIt is in virtue of unity that beings are beings.
PLOTINUSAs 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.
PLOTINUSWe 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.
PLOTINUSThe stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
PLOTINUSIt is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
PLOTINUSKnowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
PLOTINUSI am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
PLOTINUSAll things are filled full of signs, and it is a wise man who can learn about one thing from another.
PLOTINUSUntil there shall shine out on you from it the godlike splendour of virtue, until you shall see the perfect goodness surely established in the stainless shrine.
PLOTINUSThere is one and the same soul in many bodies.
PLOTINUSWe may treat of the Soul as in the body – whether it be set above it or actually within it – since the association of the two constitutes the one thing called the living organism, the Animate.Now from this relation.
PLOTINUSA 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.
PLOTINUSKnowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
PLOTINUSMankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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