The stars are like letters that inscribe themselves at every moment in the sky.
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.
More Plotinus Quotes
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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The world is knowable, harmonious, and good.
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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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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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We 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.
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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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Being is desirable because it is identical with Beauty, and Beauty is loved because it is Being.
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It is precisely because there is nothing within the One that all things are from it.
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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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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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The Soul of each one of us is sent, that the universe may be complete.
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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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It is bad enough to be condemned to drag around this image in which nature has imprisoned me.
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Nature is but an image of wisdom, the last thing of the soul; nature being a thing which doth only do, but not know.
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Each one of us is part of the soul of the universe
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