Everything in the world is full of signs. All events are coordinated. All things depend on each other. Everything breathes together.
PLOTINUSPleasure and distress, fear and courage, desire and aversion, where have these affections and experiences their seat?
More Plotinus Quotes
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One word was uttered and from every side an ear attended and received and there was an effective hearing.
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Withdraw into yourself and look. And if you do not find yourself beautiful as yet, do as the creator of a statue that is to be made beautiful.
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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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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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Knowledge has three degrees–opinion, science, illumination.
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I am striving to give back the Divine in myself to the Divine in the All.
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Until 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.
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Wherever it lies, under earth or over earth, the body will always rot.
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We 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.
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Withdraw into yourself and look.
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Fear must be entirely banished. The purified soul will fear nothing.
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Before we had our becoming here, we existed There, men other than now; we were pure souls.
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The soul that beholds beauty becomes beautiful.
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The sculptor cuts away here, smoothes there, makes this line lighter, this other purer, until he or she has shown a beautiful face upon the statue.
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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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