There is one and the same soul in many bodies.
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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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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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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If someone with the right conduct tries to attain to something that lies outside of it, is his goal not the right conduct.
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Knowledge, if it does not determine action, is dead to us.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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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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The soul in its nature loves God and longs to be at one with Him in the noble love of a daughter for a noble father.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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Mankind is poised midway between the gods and the beasts.
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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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We ourselves possess Beauty when we are true to our own being; ugliness is in going over to another order.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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