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.
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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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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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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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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In this state of absorbed contemplation, there is no longer any question of holding an object in view.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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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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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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Pleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
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Knowing ourselves, we are beautiful; in self-ignorance, we are ugly.
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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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The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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